STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1775, sig. 109-5/3

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33 - 5 - Representative sent, The previous primator of the city of Prague Dr. Klapka had to be arrested for active support of anti-state efforts In his place, the president of the country has entrusted the former president of state Dr. Riha with the responsibility of the business of the primator in the capital of Prague. The arrest of Klapka and the appointment of the German speakers in the city administration have caused the biggest appearance everywhere, and the Czechs see the beginning of a faster Germanization of Prague. At the time of the suggestion for the language decrees of the Protectorate government, no pressure had deliberately been exerted on the private sector in the assumption that by introducing bilingualism the requirements of increased German transport would be taken into account by themselves, but in fact, despite the fact that months have elapsed since then, almost nothing has happened from the Czech side in this direction, the president of the state was therefore asked for a regulation, according to which all the inscriptions and announcements in the public sphere. which, by their very nature, are intended for the whole population to be German or German-Czech, this order is now being implemented in a lucrative manner, even before the effect of this request to the President, individual Upper Land Councils in their own sphere of effect have issued invitations to place doppei-language inscriptions in different areas of public life, which have been followed without exception, doctors and pharmacists may be brought forward in advance by a general instruction to affix bilingual inscriptions, the rena-