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

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- 2 - 52 The Bucharest "Currentul" published a conversation yesterday with the Prime Minister "Bera ". Beran speaks of an extraordinary tension in the international situation, but the Czecho-Slovakia will remain neutral. It has completely subordinated itself to Munich from an external political point of view. It is worth noting Beran's remarks on the problems of the German ethnic group. He said that the German populace would not have any special rights, but would be equal to the other citizens. The German people would receive as much rights as the Czech minority in the Sudetengau reached. According to Beran, the problem of the German ethnic group is an extremely purely internal political problem of a state and can only be influenced by the principle of reciprocity from outside. The Prague station delivered a response to the Vienna station at 10 p.m. yesterday evening, following the Czech news service. Vienna's Slovak editors could not remain unrequited in the interest of the calm of Slovakia and the whole Republic; for two days the Vienna station has been spreading untrue and tendentious news. It is not necessary to point out the well-known efforts of this station, which is known from the most moving sections of the Republic through its activity. Since the removal of certain extremist persnes from the Slo-wakei Vienna has recently taken up a feverish activity. The Vienna station tells those the worst services, to which he presume passionate love and defense of their interests. But even sadder is the fact that Slovaks commit themselves to this fervent and persuasive activity of the Vienna station. In the production of the story that the betrayal of these Slovaks will be branded, the untruths of the Vienna station must be rejected decisively. In Pressburg, as one could see from Prague, complete calm reigns. The distribution of untrue news by the Vienna broadcaster is a crime against Slovakia. The Prague polemic