English Translation

- 5 - 22 The Prague Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave instructions to Masaryk about the embassy in Washington to hold back. However, he objected to the fact that in his speeches he only appealed to the American public for help for general Jewish emigration, which was certainly xek in Germany's interest (!); the only purpose of the lectures was to meet the growing boycott of the Czech-Slovak goods. In spite of this alleged boycott of the USA, Jan Masaryk had a "heartful debate" with President Roose- velt./ Meanwhile, several ambassadors of the powers had spoken to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Prague about the Jewish question. On 2 January 1939 the British envoy Newton again submitted questions on the handling of the Jewish question in Czechoslovakia. He addressed the problem of numbererus clausus at the universities, the dismissal of Jewish state employees and the program of the "Mladá národni jednota", the youth organization of the currently under construction, right-oriented Czech collective party of "Second Republic". Newton "repealed" on behalf of the British Government to give up such measures against the Jews "at least as long as in London the negotiation of a loan for Czechoslovakia has not yet been completed." The official of the Prague Foreign Ministry, who was humbling with him, closes his minutes of the discussion with the sentences: "I replied that I would have the matter investigated and would inform him of the result. I have once again pointed out that it is very disappointing that England is only concerned with the Jews and not with the whole of the Tsc h e c h o - S l ow aleik ü me r e . In the negotiations that led to Munich, it was said that England and France would not only provide assistance to the Jews and refugees, but to the whole of Czechoslovakia in their reconstruction." On 24 January 1939, the Soviet envoy Alexan-drowsky said goodbye in the Czernin Palace.