English Translation

42 - 2 - b) "At each of these rallies a member of the government was to be opposed." The speeches of the members of the Government were held almost completely according to a uniform concept, while the other ministers, such as Eliáš in Prague, needed at least 8 - 10 minutes to contradict this unitary text, the minister Krejěi in Pilsen did his thing in 3 minutes. Also in the speech of the minister Kapras in Pardubitz a laconic shortness was noted from the Czech side. (c) "The cultural workers who returned from their journey to the Reich also took part in the rallies." These reports agree that the intentions of these cultural workers, i.e. the non-functioning of the NG, were the best of all the speeches presented, because they were mostly experiential and credible without a concept. (d) "The number of participants in these events was large." There is no need to polemicise the official figures issued by the NG, although they are at least one third more than those in the SD reports. The Pilsen case may be considered as a significant example of the interest of the participants, where exactly 866 of 1200 invited persons had appeared. e) "The rallies found the most lively response in the press in Prague and in the country." The Czech press actually took a position in a large number of essays on the question of the idea of the Reich and also devoted a broad scope of its reporting to the NG appeals. It has, however, done so in many cases with such an overriding unskill, so that this overfeeding in the Czech public sphere has often achieved the very opposite, in which it was concluded from the supervising of essays that the German demands to the Czech press were equally high.