English Translation

17 - 3 II. I have added to this announcement, the publication of which is omitted in the press, the following explanatory notes: 1.) For some time now, intellectual sabotage attempts of the just announced kind have been accumulating in the Czech press. This phenomenon appears to be linked to a false assessment of the general political-military development, which causes numerous Czech editors and censorship agents to search for an alibi. It has been repeatedly pointed out by the German authorities in the Protectorate as well as by the Czech government that every member of the Pro- tectorate who tries to shake the given state-law conditions under the aggravating conditions of the war in any Porm has to reckon with reckless punishment. The judgment of the case thus cannot come as a surprise to anyone who knows all these reminders. 2.) It has often been publicly explained by the decisive authority that the Czech population may be careful to confuse today's German presidencies with the government system of the old Oesterreich. At least the Czech literature of the post-war period has described the activity of Maffia in such detail during the First World War that every Czech can assume from the German leadership of the present that it is not clear about the true character of any similar substance. I recall the subsequent glorification of certain press offenses from the time of the First World War. The assertion that these offenses resulted only from mistake, error or political ignorance almost regularly does not correspond to the other high intelligence of the responsible persons.And today, as an argument, is in no way caught up in any way. -4