A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1497, sig. 109-4/1251

Page 46

English Translation

The behaviour of these two delegates is in stark contradiction to the demand made during the rally to pass on what was heard to the whole people. 2.) Under point 2, the President reports on the successes of the further rallies of the NG, which were held in a district. Although many districts made great efforts to hold these announcements, the success of them was no more than with the circular appeals. Again, these rallies took place only for a closed circle of guests and functionaries. In Kralowitz z.E. the teacher Šmid from Breschan denied access to the district rally there because he had no invitation. The ideas of the Šmid that he as a German friend had to get access to a rally for the idea of the Reich did not work. Some meetings en- deten sdhon purely numerically with a pitiful fieko. Thus, at the meeting in LGhotieborsch of 200o loads, only 350 - 400 had appeared, which were distributed in a hall of 1200 people. The following extract from the report on district statements in the NG-Kreis Pilsen can be described as generally valid for the average of all other district rallies: The effect on the audience was generally weak. Although the promises in social terms in the country were more interested than in the present circular rally in Pilsan, the essential, however, the re-training on the Reich's thoughts, was only "understandable" in the old sense, namely as a rescue by adaptation.The mood of the listeners was dead, which the speaker was getting bored at the end and only the paid secretaries took some effort, while the functionaries (delegates of the circuit, etc.) reluctantly blew their speeches. This was particularly the case in Stankau, although the participation was the best on the part of the invited guests there. The effects on the population were hardly noticeable, the interest from the beginning was only weak, because in recent weeks the external political events, especially the Italian-Grie-