English Translation

AA Trchechische Presseauszug_(No._2)ublication site Bautzen, 24.3.1944 Kornstr. 1 "Čechoslovák" (London): No. 52 of 24. 12. 1943 "Consultations Stalin - Beneš. Cable special report from Moscow. The chairman of the Council of People's Commissars Stalin received the President of the Czechoslovak Republic Dr. Beneš on Saturday evening. The talks were attended by the Commissioner of Foreign Affairs Melotov and the Czechoslovak Ambassador Fierlinger. Sunday had been reserved for a visit to the city in the program for the President's stay. The president was deeply impressed by the design of the scientific institutes, the care for cultural works and the technical achievements. Benes showed great interest in the excellent results of Soviet surgery and its newer branch, the transplant, namely a success that the American experts admire. Benes reported in Moscow numerous delegations of Czechoslovak.Military units, The President continues to study treatises and inscriptions concerning the prisoners of war of Czecho-Slovak descent. He expects that in the foreseeable future the numerical stocks of Czechoslovakian units in the UdSsR will experience a significant increase. The President of the Republic, accompanied by the Vice-Commissioner Korneychuk and the envoy Lobedyov, visited the film studio of Sovkinos in Moscow, where a new film of this society was presented to him, the great documentary Dovshenko film on the battle for Ukraine, a portrayal of the tragedy that broke through Ukraine through the German invasion, and the heroic struggle of the peoples of the Soviet Union for the liberation of the sister republic from the German yoke. The Sovkino also recently filmed a Svejk's adventure among Yugoslav partisans. On December 1, President Beneš visited the Lenin Library of the Soviet Union in Moscow in the morning. He was greeted by the library director, who showed him a number of distinguished technical institutions. The president expressed his interest in the methods of distribution of books and the organization of libraries in the most cloistered villages of the Soviet Union. The library has a kloino, abér good selection of older Czech books. On the afternoon of the meeting, the President spoke with the Commissioner for Foreign Affairs Molotov for two and a half hours; Vice-Commissioner Korneychuk and Minister Lebedev were present at this meeting, and the negotiations concerned a number of problems, for which both countries had an interest.