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

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86 P Z D Presse-Informationsdienst vom 28. Feber 1939. The de jure - Recognition of National Spain by the attention of the Western Powers has recently directed the Czech press to the Auesenpåli-tik gowandatn. " ŽemmámmMa Národni Listy "vèr refers in the editorial to the fact that in the coffee houses recently Swiss democratic leaves are bought and mm become a source of whisper propaganda. Chvalkovský had only recently referred to the geographical location of the Checho-Slevakei. One had to be aware that the capitals of the country, such as Brno and Bratislava, but also Prague and Chust, which are only 30 km from the border, have become border cities. Natural mountain fortresses have been lost, hundreds of railway kilometers have been transferred to other possessions. Whenever criticism of Beran's policy is practised, one may first take a look at the map. The interests of the whole of the Czechs' kinky future today must be to win the trust and friendship of Germany. Geography never lie. 5 The new Czech-Slovakia must also have its sacro egoismo, the right to selfishness. The law of the map and the order of the domestic egoism of the nation are self-evident in the new politics. The paper deals with the Czech school system in the Sudetengau in a longer reportage. "Národní Politika" gives an overview of the international/political situation in the editorial, refers to the sharp press campaign of Germany and Italy against America, to the economic negotiations of England with the Soviet Union, the attitude of France and Mmmdd against England over Franco-Spain, to movements in Belgium and the Balkans triggered by the right of peoples to self-determination, and concludes that, in the midst of these rapidly changing and nourishing phenomena,