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

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- 3 - Thebt then gives a speech by Csavojsky on the Pressburger Sen- to the Vienna station, which takes back the falsehoods spread from Vienna. In Czech extreme-right circles it is pointed out that the official Prague propaganda in the case of Slovakia works with the same methods as in the previous year before the liberation of the Sudeten Germans. This is easy to explain inasmuch as the press and propaganda apparatus of Prague is still entirely in the hands of those who led the campaign against the Sudeten Germans and Germany in the previous year and have become the most zealous Mmm supporters of former President Benesch. The Sunday press, in commenting on Slovak events, strives to give the Czech public the impression that the Slovak crisis is already over and that the new Prime Minister, Sidor, rejoices in the mutual confidence of the entire Slovak people. "Venkov" writes in the editorial that the outcome of the negotiations between Prague and Pressburg has also been closely followed abroad, especially in the neighbouring countries, but that the political and diplomatic authorities have maintained their full objec- tivity, since they believe that the result of the negotiation between the Czechs and Slovaks is a purely internal matter for Czechoslovakia. Of course, the outcome of these negotiations also depends on the relationship between the neighbours and Czechoslovakia. It confirms that Czechoslovakia will be systematically closer to the consolidation of internal relations and that the good relationship with the neighbours, especially with Germany, will be strengthened under all circumstances. The "Národní práce" attack particularly sharply Tuka, to whom mmm the leaf describes as the actual initiator of the separate endeavours of Pressburg. n "Národní Noviy" and the rest of the leaves are now speaking of an open success of the Czecho-Slovak state thanks, whereby mmm Karol Sidor is referred to as the man who enjoys the sole trust of the Slovaks,