STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2619, sig. 109-12/267

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62 - ll - Pront of ours in Western Europe next to the official politics of our state." 4.) He defines his tactical attitude as follows: "One has to maintain peace and caution in the concessions to totalism at home, in the turn to Germany, in today's silent situation. Many of them should now be cautious and in a certain sense observe the old line, in order to then be prepared at the given moment and to establish themselves entirely according to the conditions, after the progress of the war and the events. When some will be in power, the others will have to sacrifice themselves for our old and perpetual national tradition..." 5. Finally, he will return here to his central idea, namely to be able to signal once again to an attack on Germany. The slogan was: "Wait for a while and then start our historic struggle and the cultural and political struggle anew." With this confession, the image of Dr.Beneš is rounded off plastically. We want to remember the sentence in which he sees the quintessence of his view of the Czech task: "wait for a while and then start the cultural and political attack on the empire again." We underline the attack and start again. It is clear from the fact that Beneš has always felt in the most secret as an attacker and repeatedly pushes for this position. So this is the peaceman of the Hradshin! German for the responsible/leadership in Bohemia and Moravia would be clearly described the deeper problems she faces. For this attitude of a man who has twenty years of experience