STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2612, sig. 109-12/260

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21 - 3 - The start was the same as l9l4. The spokesman for the U.S. Jewry, Dr. Stephen Wise, was the same as in the world war, the American-Jewish Congress was the one that had once been founded by Louis Dembitz Brandeis and the tendency of Czech emigration was the similar to l9l4: possible cleansing measures against Jews in the homeland had to be avoided under all circumstances, in order not to lose the help of the world Jewry for the "foreign revolutionary" in particular in Fagall the U,.S . But - and here began the first stroke by the calculation of stubborn World War II abklache - the homeland decided at the end of l938 to attack the Jewish question; although hesitant and remaining on the surface, but out of the nature of Judaism at the state collapse and the wrong course, which had inevitably led to it. World Jewry answered. Not directly, but in the detour of future diplomacy, it hinted at his threats against the "Second Republic" in Prague. In December 1938, the first British envoy, Newton, appeared in Prague at the Slovak Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced the opening of the London bond negotiations for Czechoslovakia, on the occasion of which the position of the British government on the issue of borrowing would depend to a significant extent on how the Czech-Slovak government would behave towards the Jews and refugees. This was nothing more than a friendly, but nevertheless clear kxikisäherxBrpresswmgsversuchc xexbritish blackmail attempt against Czechoslovakia to