STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2529, sig. 109-12/176 (damaged)

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L0 P Z D Provided by: Press - Informationsdienst. In the foreground of the foreign policy coverage of the Czech press of Mitwoch is the invasion of the Franco troops in Madrid, on which the pages publish a series of DNB news. How much the German-Romanian economic agreement has impressed the Czech economic circles is evident from the fact that even today the Czech papers still comment partly in editorials, partly in the economic section on the details of this treaty. For example, the "Ceské Slovo" writes in the editorial that the contract with Romania is also of great importance for the protectorate areas.The industry of the Protectorate will participate in the construction of the Romanian industry, which is equivalent to a comprehensive working environment. In the history of the economic treaties, it has never been possible to conclude such a contract, which in such a brilliant way complements a predominantly agricultural state with an area that has reached the highest level of civilization. The "Národni Listy" devotes in the economic section under the title "Germany in Central Europe" a more lenient consideration to the German-Romanian treaty and also "Poledni List" takes its position in the editorial. The press releases the communication of the Committee of the Czech People's Community, according to which this orgsnisation is the all-encompassing spokesman of the czech people,with particular emphasis on the fact that Adolf Erub'y had come to Gajda and asked him about the origin of the fascist leaflets. "Lidov'e Noviny" take a sharp stand against some elements of the Ostrava people trying to disturb the calm -