GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27

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-19- 99. In Prague it was only the frenzied crews that reminded of the Austrian rule; everything else indicated already the complete impoverishment, On 24 and 25. In October, Czech delegates went to Geneva to discuss further behaviour with Beneš and on 31 - because they were not aware of what had happened at home - gave him a "Programme Declaration of the Czecho-Slovak State", in which they approved everything that was pre-standardized in Czech matters abroad and in which the association with Austria had definitely been resolved. In Wion, an attempt was made not only to the Ministeriun Iamnsch, but also to the Czech MPs at the time - that the deserting Soldaton could be held back to the ceasefire by a personal intervention at the front. Tusar then informed Rašin that Austria was capitulating early. On 28 October, Dr. Scheiner prepared guard service with the National Committee in Prague, and on 28 October the Committee of Four - Rašín, Švchla, Soukup, Střibrny - met and concluded the decision to proclamieron the independent Czechoslovak state in the Austrian surrender. A message concerning the surrender arrived shortly afterwards, "iThe pre-administration was taken over by the National Committee in the morning hours, in the evening Dr. Šrobar arrived from Slovakia and in the late evening the first law of the Czechoslovak Republic was passed. On 1 October, an attempt was made to reverse the situation with the help of the military, but dioser failed completely. The Czechoslovak study was there, even if it took a long time to reach its fixed limits, as can be seen from the just described, the main acts of the entire domestic resistance in Prague took place, where by the natural course of the incidents the Czech representatives from Moravia and Silesia were no longer present, or