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

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P3 In an interview with a representative of the "pzD", Minister Georg Havelka spoke about the structure and guidelines of the new Ischecho-Slavak propaganda. At the time of the fall crisis, the office of Minister Ing.Vavrečka was created, which is responsible for the agendas of a "Ministry of Propaganda". However, it could not be expanded into a proper ministry, because it was intended only provisionally and because the law required by the constitution fxkkke to establish this ministry was missing. However, one realized that this "mean of war" is also very important in times of war. The new government is aware of the fact that the state cannot afford a páppaganda like other states (e.g.Germany), since Czecho-Slovakia is a small state and above all has no foreign policy plans. With regard to the reconstruction of a state propaganda stellar, the question of which of the three joint ministries it should be affiliated was raised by the state law. It was decided to set up a central office at the Council of Ministers, which would lead the entire propaganda (including the other joint ministries x as well as in matters of the western part of the state). Då's former press department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is well known to have been liquidated and the Aullands propaganda will also be conducted at the Council of Ministers' Milling Bureau in the future. The government regulation required for the establishment of this Central Propaganda Centre is already being prepared. It will be short and mainly limited to defining the purpose of propaganda items. In the first place, this state propaganda will aim to bring the population in line and to act in a direction, as is already the case in the newspapers and in the press.