English Translation

44 -t From the report on the rally in Tabor: "The speeches were given without exception and made the impression of a predetermined content. This was also noted by the listeners and individual voices stated that both the rallies and the speeches were predetermined by the Germans. These facts and the whole character of the rally, the serious, partly uninterested certainty of the leading men and the monotonous reading of a lecture were not suitable to make the listening people understand that this is indeed an honest will." From the report on the rally in Moravia, East: "The rally was regarded as a demonstration of loyalty, which had to take place in order to explain publicly once again that the İshechen as a people are ready to cooperate. The "applause donors" designated at the previous meeting of the District Committee of the NG were very weak in their task, so that the applause was only a very weak one." From the report on the rally in Budweis: "No participation in the rally could be found at all among the participants. In front of the theatre several participants talked after the rally, one of them saying: "But it was touching", while the others burst into a loud laughter." From the report about the rally in Pardubitz (the description comes from a higher Czech state official): "Minister Dr.Kapras gave a little convincing and untempered speech. Dr. Procházke also did not understand how to pack the tellers. The Assembly therefore missed its effect and seemed frantic and cool." From the report of the rally in Pilsen: "After Dr.Křemen had also reaped his scanty applause, the NG's authorised representative for the Pilsner circle, Votik, his speech lasted the longest (20 linuten), but in the flue- sterton at a rapid pace and without looking up from the concept, was undermined, so that even in the front rows there was not a single word to be understood. The district secretary Zelen- ka begged the speaker to raise his voice. No appeal, louder cyssing, was raised from the circles of the audience, but rather