English Translation

Excerpt from the "Neue Tag" of 28.2.1945 No.50. Envoy Chvalkovský Victim of a terrorist attack in Berlin. (Eig. Ber.) On 25 Feb. the envoy of the government of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia fell victim to a low-flying attack at the Reich government Dr. František Chval-kovský. His wife was seriously injured. * František Chvalkovský was a special man of trust, Anton Svehlas. Born in 1885 in Owl near Prague, he received his doctorate in 1909 as a doctor of law at Prague University, first became a lawyer, then a minister of the interior. In 1920 he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a legation council, was sent to Tokyo a year later, then to Washington in 1923, where he remained for two years. After a short parliamentary term as a member of the agrarian party, he went to Berlin in 1927 as an envoy and then to Rome in 1932. After the liberation of the Sudetenland, Syrovy berled him as Foreign Minister to his second government, which was formed on 5 October 1938. He conducted the negotiations with the Reichsstellen, which finally spared the planned coordination in various Sudeten- land regions. For further personal meetings Chvalkovský travelled to Berlin on 13 October 1938 and was received the following day by the Führer. In October of this year, he informed the Soviet envoy in Prague that Czechoslovakia was no longer interested in the military pact with Moscow. He repeatedly contacted the Reich government at this time. In appeal, he urged his people to agree and in vain warned against mistaking the situation. Thus the internal conditions became so acute that the solution of Lot 30hse7 came from Slovakia. The danger of overthrow caused by communist Masonic and Jewish agents then caused President Dr. Hácha to hold a consultation with the Foreign Minister with the Reich government in Berlin on 14 March 1939, during this historical journey of the President fell Dr. Chvalkovský a significant role, where the fate of the countries of Bohemia and Moravia was placed in the hands - - of the leader. When after the decree about Moravia an envoy of the government of the Protectorate was to be appointed the state-law position of the lands of Bohemia, Bohemia, and Moravia in the Reich government, the election was made to Dr. Chvalkovský, who has been active in the imperial capital since that time - through almost six years. Dr. Chvalkowský was a man of political far-sightedness and not only had great knowledge in political, legal and economic matters, but also in the artistic field.