English Translation

A - 13- Minister Hruby pointed out on occasion that the Association of Agriculture and Forestry had made available to the individual speakers documents which had not been prepared accordingly, so that the action did not take place in many ways as requested. Appelt should have agreed with him (Hruby) in advance.The minister indicated that a number of bases had been entered into in this regard, to which he still wants to return. - The intellectual author of the action, chief author J e Ž e k, said that the food battle had gone as expected. Only in individual places there had been various disagreements. Unfavorably, it had had had the effect that besides the purely nutritional-economic speeches also anti-Bolshevist lectures were brought. This would have distracted too much from the actual thing. Apart from that, the speakers had been in some places communists themselves. For example, such a speech had been given in the Launer area. The speaker would have brought everything in such a way that his tendentious intention had become clear even to the stupidest farmer. It was a great pity that this anti-Bolshevik propaganda action had been incorporated into the food battle. Minister Moravec had certainly had a special interest in this, which allegedly followed any strengthening of the influence of Minister Hruby suspiciously. Summary• An assessment of the outcome of the action should not be overlooked that l.) was a novel attempt in a politically very unfavourable situation in the case of an extremely low reception readiness of the eligible persons, (2)) by the modification of the original plan, certain factors were added which favoured sabotage, particularly in the lower divisions of the association, by formal compliance with the instructions given from above. Nevertheless, a certain success of the action can be signified inasmuch as it has succeeded in encouraging, on a broad scale, a discussion, albeit often from a negative point of view, of the delivery obligation by Czech farmers. It is worth noting that in the atmospheric effects of Hruby'a's speech, the oppositions of the Czech populace, which have sometimes occurred, have clearly shown the weaknesses in the apparatus of the association. Particularly obvious are: the cumbersome, bureaucratic work of the Central Association, a not inconsiderable lack of initiative also German bodies of the Association and the at present far from unassailable interaction of the German and Czech leadership of the Federation, which, among other things, is due to the lack of a