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

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- 2 - 84 rallies of leading figures happens. Board of the propaganda office will be the prime minister, but he can also entrust another minister with the leadership. With regard to the kaxxakx press censorship, the central office will take on a unification binfluss. The new regulation of this censorship was delayed in the last few days by other urgent works, but should be completed in the next weeks. Institutions As far as broadcasting is concerned, its executive kxxxgxxxxn consist almost exclusively of state officials, so that another "nationalization" is unnecessary. The central office will influence the design of the Propgramm in the sense of the general guidelines. The press department of the Council of Ministers Bureau will be transferred to the new propaganda office; it will be the pillar where this central office is built. Against the "whispering propaganda" one will continue to work in the future mainly through information about the true situation and the intentions of the government. For the next time there will be meetings of the officials of the united party, of which there are around 6000 in Prague alone. The whisper propaganda, Minister Dr=Havelka explains, is not organized, but mainly a psychological consequence of the revelations that the Czech people experienced in the autumn of the past year.