STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393

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26.T.1PM. - 3 - The Swiss citizen,Prof. Stodola, a Czech born in 1859 in Slovakia, received an international medal for his services to Rechnik as professor of Bechnik in Zurich. She was handed over to the Sehweizer envoy in London. The csl. The Ministry of Labour in London has set up an employment agency. All unemployed Czechoslovaks in England are to be employed in the war industry in England. They will be grouped together without re-training camps. Thus, all highly qualified Czech workers in England can work in the military industry. Talks with the homeland: After the German attack on our legionaries, the Czech officials are now in their turn. Baron von Neurath will throw many thousands of Czech officials on the pavement in the near future. The Germans justify this new terror action with a overload of the official apparatus, which has become too big due to the immigration from the Sudeten area and from Karpathorussland ... But this is a false argument, because who is to blame for the fact that it must come like this Who has expelled our Czech officials from these areas where they had their existence as beggars. It was only the Germans who were now sot un, as if they were innocent and want to put the blame on our democracy. Jhr only needs to take the article of K.H.Prank from lö.1. to your hand, He writes there that the felders devour for these officials half of the tax revenue from the protectorate. Yes, it is not the taxes cschech. Taxpayers who benefit from the Czech Beaats? This is just it, these funds cschech. Payers flow into the pockets of the Germans, are used for the German army, fpr the armor, they are used to pay Neurath, Frank, Gregory and the vast amount of German officials, but also to buy and pay for us gentlemen Moravec, Prochazka, Marayk and Rys. The work of your hands cannot be enough to feed this whole mob. They eat up your money and become czech officers on the pavement. Neurath wants to meet two flies on a visual layer with his new measure, He does not want to meet the individual officials, but will damage the whole people with it. On the outside, the incompetent and useless, superfluous, are to be dismantled, in reality, he can remove the uncomfortable ones for him. These are all so-called in his eyes. Beneschists, Jntellectuelles, Skauts, atudents, Legionäreusw. .... In their place, a large number of German officials will come. It is a new mercantile stone in your crusade and path of suffering. The Germans cannot use you well in your place, Jhr must go away and Germans come to your place. It is your only and best consolation: It can no longer last long and wait until the victory is ours! It will be the first secret of our President and of our free government in the free CsR that all officials will return to their jobs. This decree will ensure all the existence and work again. How was it at the time of our democratic republic, which now has to be insulted at the court of the Germans in our Czech newspapers and on the radio? Your jobs were protected by laws, the officials received their salaries, the pensioners their pensions, every change had to be discussed and agreed with you and your organizations, and every innovation of the measure had to only be approved by Parliament after careful examination. In the course of a single night, Mr. Neurath meets an arbitrary injunction and Jhr has just subordinated you and is not asked. Two moments are decisive: l. Only the Czech people bleeds and 2. It is increasingly driven into resistance against the tyrants.