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26a took the form of terror. This explanation further shows that the German authorities themselves regard this terror regime as incapable of restoring order and that they had to make an appeal to the President of the Republic to assert his auto-rity. The arguments put forward in the declaration are that Bohemia and Moravia form part of the German area of life and that the Czechs, whether they like it or not, must bear the consequences of this condition. After all, there is a kind of threat about this declaration, which would bring about a transformation of today's Negim into an even more Germanic one, in which the Czechs would join the German army. Berlin, 20 Nov. (United Pres.) In national socialist circles, the provisions taken in the Protectorate and recognized as "drastic measures" are interpreted as a warning to the minorities, who are especially jettisoned in wartime the bearers of unrest both in the Reich and in Bohemia-Mären and Poland. "Such elements, they say, have to be beaten down without regard." They stress that the hanging of the state of siege represents a "enhanced" protectorate and does not affect the daily life of the Czechs. Against that there are various courts of law bulging powers to speed up the brokerage. They claim that 99 percent of the Czechs are loyal and that the exception law relates only to a limited area of the Protectorate. Bon, however, is told that the German authorities have arrested several hundred Czechs in order to become the instigator of the student manifestos. From the same source it is learned that it is impossible to indicate the exact number of those arrested, but that they are at least 200. A large number of them had already been released after they had shown that they had not participated in the rallies. On the German side it was explained that in Prague and in the rest of the Protectorate everything was quiet. 49514