English Translation

About Soviet Russia Martin has given little thought, probably starting from the production that the USA will speak the last word in all things. Great Britain does not play a special role in his considerations. Martin sees in Great Britain only one US base and starting point for the invasion, for which already 2 or 3 million men are ready (as well as more l0 million reserves in the USA). In the Czechs Martin saw until his arrival in Prague only a people enslaved and exploited by Germany, who longs for his liberation. He was convinced that there was an "underground movement" here and even asked me about the possibility of connecting him to a "leader" of this opposition. I was already following these views at my first poor future with Martin on Tuesday, the 8th of February. In the course of the daily hours of discussions and in the question of Martin's third party, they came to light again and again. Martin himself gave me the starting points for how to work on it. The decisive factor was our first conversation on the 8th feber, which lasted from 9 o'clock in the evening until 1/2 4 o' clock and about which Martin later expressed himself to his companion Lt.Bönninghaus opposite that she had enabled him to take a preliminary tour of Central European Prague and the problen "Tschecho-Slpwakei". The effect of our first conversation on lartin was so starl that he waived a special progranm during his stay in Prague and did not express any wish for my multiple questions as to what else he wanted to see. On the first or second day of his stay in Prague in hotel with a prau, fartin met him with something about the injustice of food-reichshilfe and about