English Translation

iS 2 The negative voices to the article mainly work with the argument that it is too late today to create an aversion in the Czech people against the English and the Allies at all. Czech circles in Budweis explain, for example, that after the establishment of a competent German propaganda leadership, it could have succeeded in taking the Czech people strongly against England and France. The Germans, however, did not know how to win the Czechs and, through their violent acts, had so aggravated the situation that it was hard to persuade a Czech today that the Germans meant well with him and that only the Allies were to blame for his ruin. Czechs in Prague have derogated that such references to the betrayal of the allies of 1938 could no longer trigger any effects in the Czech people. Contrary to the first bitterness in the October days of 1938, it had now been realised that Munich was a superior move of the English, who at that time the Czech people would rather hand over to the Germans in a peaceful way for a few years than to see that the Czech nation was completely destroyed by the German war machine. In view of today's war situation, it is understandable that the Germans are shifting to a propaganda offensive. However, with such tricks they could not exert any influence on the opinion formation of the Czechs. The treatment of Czechs, for example, by the employment office is at any rate more sustainable and propagandistic than all newspaper articles. On the criticism of the Czech N.G. districts in Prague expressed in the essay that they would already welcome it today if they were as well as the Germans in the former republic. While the republic, according to other Czech voices, left the Germans their cultural life and their schools and even built streets, schools and other cultural institutions for the Slovaks and their standard of living -3-