STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 588, sig. 109-4335

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19a I use this opportunity to point out the need for a thorough revision of the law on state celebrations as soon as possible, so that in the future we may be overtaken by unloving incidents.7 [On the other hand, I do not consider Kiapka's message, which he wants to have from a safe source, that Chamberlain allegedly caused directly in America that Beneš 's agitations had to be omitted.7 In a conversation with the primator, I also came to speak about the echo which his speech to Konrad Henlein triggered in the foreign press, namely the place where he spoke of the amnesty of the political prisoners. He replied to me that there had really been a whole series of attacks that he could never approve of. He pointed out that in Pankrac there were allegedly 50 Czechs and a small part of Germans who were being treated very badly there. He also mentioned the case of the Kladnoer Dechant, who was beaten by the Gestapo in the presence of his chaplain and then imprisoned, although he was not supposed to have taken care of politics at all after Klapka's formations. An 8l-year-old man in Kladna had also been arrested. Finally, he led the case of Tabor's mayor Soumar, who had been arrested in Budweis for weeks without having been interrogated so far. Soumar was seriously ill and his relatives were now forbidden to visit him.Klapka considers this delay to be unbearable and thinks that in most cases the imposition of police supervision would suffice.7 Finally, he informed me that he was just going to Hácha to be confirmed by him as spokesman of all Czech communities. In this case, the Führer- gedanke is to be carried out, and in turn, he envisaged negotiations with the German Community Day for the purpose of creating an employment relationship and for the purposes of discussing the question of a possible transfer of the German municipal order to the Protectorate area. In addition, on Wednesday, the head of the district office discussed these possibilities with Gauharmt- mann Kreissix.ei.