STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 385, sig. 109-4/130

Page 9

English Translation

& -8 - Attitude was also able to change the fopularity of Colonel Svee no longer. He himself spoke without any success mutating troops into knowledge. From the troop of soldiers the call sounded to him, "We do not glauben dir, will believe Vodiëka" / a leader of the crew from the rank of non-commissioned officers / That's why sounds in a draft to a call to the soldiers, which Švec apparently on 23 and 24 October and probably also on the critical night of the 25th. We read here: "In our ranks there was a contagious disease that spread with terrible speed among the regiments, batallphones and individuals. This disease threatens all of us with the hereus, which we have so anxiously guarded in four years - the honor, the honor of the soldier, the Czech soldier, of the pride of the nation." The national name was "stained by cowards". "Do you want to get the names of a Hus, a Georg v, Podiebrad and the great Prokop to be kicked into the dust, dirt and mud forever by Suer? Do you want your fallen comrades, whose blood calls for revenge, to turn into their graves full of disgust at your actions? Do you want to send the curse after us instead of the word at home, which accompanies each of our steps?...... Sorry for your actions, not that we are already at the goal of our mission by acknowledging our freedom, that the recognized freedom gives us the right to lay our hands in the lap and to enjoy the fruits calmly. Freedom will not deserve it, and it will not be free to acquire it, but to defend it. You destroy what was built up with tremendous hindrances by four years, you destroy the organization that was the strengthened support of our struggle for superior rights in our Bohemian countries, you denounce detdenorsem all laws of order and discipline, you will destroy the charicter of the Czech soldier." On the declines, on his personal inability to enforce against the troops and probably also because he no longer believed in the victorious enforcement of the Czecho-Slovak idea of independence, on the night of the 25th October on a sheet of paper the farewell words threw: "I cannot survive the sehand, which our army by the guilt of many This is not the case in the United Kingdom, but it is also the case that there is a great deal of work to be done in this area.