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Czech No. 1 2 - constituted. In them all strata of the people are represented. Already now they represent an amazing power and the will of the freedom-loving people. Hero- gegondende Aufgabo is a conspiratorial and destructive; sic is based on the active struggle. against the Nazi invaders. Its coming task will be a constructive one soin; it will be based on taking power from the hands of the Nazis and the Czechoslovak Quislings, and ensuring the erston and mainlyston Prerequisite for the establishment of a free state.It is a matter of ensuring that we all want to see the tasks of the National Ausschusso in this way. For those who were to diminish their mission and legal validity would be wronged by a people; their political roife, moral strength and sense of responsibility would prove to be the source of the highest power in the future." "Čechoslovák" (London): No. 52 of 24 December. 1943 "Eine Slovak Brigade has defected - Eino delegation of Slovak soldiers to the President of the Republic For a joint fight against the enemy. In the last phasc of the struggle in the South Ukraine a Slovak infantry brigade with full equipment passed in the Dnieprbogen to the Red Army. Thousands of Slovak officers and soldiers are concentrated in the Jüdukraino. The angoyors of the slovakishon army sent to President Bencß to Moscow a delegation with Lieutenant Colonel Lichner and senior lieutenants Čaplovič and Schovaneg at the head. The delegation expressed its wish to the President of Benes that these Slovaks should join the Czechoslovak fighting units on the Easternront at the side of the Red Army so that they could participate in the struggle gogon the common enemy. Beneš assured him that he would do everything in his power to ensure that the wish of the Slovak Union, in agreement with the Soviet military leadership, would be fulfilled as soon as possible." 17826