STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2584, sig. 109-12/232

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Prague, 12 March :942. An to dodq Minister Moravec could give a politically significant speech at the Journalist-Belt Congress in Venice (1 April to 12 April 1942), as he is currently speaking from his knowledge of Benesch's politics. the Tachechoslova kei, on the other hand, as the current miniater of the protectorate government, is able to make the strongest impression among all present. I hope to give the following foundations to his speech: Miniater Noravec waiat an der Benesch-politik der letzten 10 Jahre und gnzdan Zusammenspiel Benezh'a with the Vestdemocracies efeeryeits and with the Soviet Union, on the other hand, after that a) the Pshechoslovakia was always ready to participate fully in the creation policy of the Penalty Powers against the ReiotCoHi and b) to prepare the war for the empire. It is possible to start with the big fires that Benesch left at the Quai d'Oreay in Paris and in Geneva on the occasion of the planned customs union between Germany and Austria. ("If Czechoslovakia were put before a fait sccompli, diea would be a Casus belli for Benesch!") This proves that the democratic Weimar-Germany was already held down and gutted by all means. On the basis of documents from the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs of deceptors, official com munications of Beneseh's travels or the recommendation of democrats Stastomen in Prague, and on the basis also of the Geneva Protocols of the League of Nations, a uniform line of this anti-German and rich Benesch policy can be established.