English Translation

45 - 5 - one seemed to be quite satisfied, smoking cigarettes and cigars, drinking his quip of wine or coffee, talking, making fun of the poor attitude of the speaker, waving to the lumbering waiters, etc., in short, in the hall there was a typical inn atmosphere. It was characteristic of the audience's attitude that, despite all of this, Votík received at least as much applause as all the other speakers. This only proves that it was not for the content of the speech that was clapped, but for the "obligation" that was sufficient. Neither the mistakes of the past were addressed (for example, no comment was made on questions of Marxism, Judaism, world view; names such as Benesch and Masaryk were not taken for granted, etc.), nor were ways of the future been pointed out or explained why one thought so late about the necessity of a reorientation. As the following examples show, NG officials personally contributed to shaping the eeho of the Czech public.These meetings in a negative way: NG district secretary Šenold in Klattau, in a conversation about the NG assemblies, expressed something similar: "Germany has always closed Palte and not kept it and given statements that have never been redeemed. Literally, Šenold continued: Be unconcerned, brothers, Germany does not win the war by ordering us to think clearly." From Kralowitz it is known that the delegates sent from there (district captain Dr Sacha and mayor Kuchar) after the Filsner rally on the return trip in Plaß contributed to a football competition Kralowwitz-Plaß. Coming at home, they told a lot about this fight, but did not mention with a word what happened at the rally. Only on explicit questions did they deal with the numerous curious people with the words that it was as beautiful as in the newspapers. It seems that this was intended to reduce the content of the speeches, as among the Czech population there was an opinion that all political newspaper news was -9-