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38 another nobleman took over the British exile, Nicolas Count of Bubna and Litic, who, according to Hubert Masařík's testimony, did not excel in the official agenda, for he was an insistent, fearless patriot and antinacist, as well as his Ra- bite wife, who sometimes brought us valuable news from the aristocratic circles.11 Bubno's integrity and true generosity for all circumstances testifies that immediately after the arrest of General Elias at the end of September 1941 he did not hesitate to vote for the demise of the government cabinet, which, however, due to the stalemate outcome and indecision of Minister Cipera nepa-dl. In accordance with Reinhard Heydrich's directives, Jaroslav Krejčí was no longer in the newly reconstructed cabinet. Oficial protectorate representation was strengthened in this way by people, whom Elias' colleagues believed by their names to symbolize histo-rical traditions of the Czech state and ... will not suffer complexes of inferiority during negotiations with Nazi pre-builders.12 However, the nobility was not limited to public, visible activities, even if they often covered the work underground. Some of her personalities played an important role in the anti-Nazi resistance movement. Zdeněk left an indelible mark on it by Count Boøek-Dohalský alias Halík or Bedrník, as his code names sounded. He maintained close contacts with Prime Minister Alois Eliáš and with the castle front-game headed by State President Emile Hácha. He brokered their connection with the Czechoslovak exile representation in London, which was entrusted to him directly by Edvard Beneš. The statement he obtained from the homeless office was told to me that the publication in the official sheet was an order, not an offer of office. Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (hereinafter referred to as the AMZV), personal file by František Schwarzenberg, curriculum vitae with special attention to the time of the German occupation, p. 2. 11 MASAŘÍK, Hubert: In the transformations of Europe, pp. 3145. Masařík visualizes in his memoirs Bubna's character traits and qualities with a significant episode that he personally witnessed when he and his ministerial colleague Professor Kapras were to present K. H. Frank on one occasion. The interview did not last five minutes, he recalls Masaøík, and Frank had already started to talk about the Czech nation as usual. Then the drum rose up, measured Frank's eyes and declared that he had come to a courtesy visit as a minister, but he would not be insulted, nor ironized, he would rather leave immediately. Frank, oddly, immediately tamed and the rest of the visit took place without incident. 12 Ibid, p. 314.