STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2687, sig. 109-12/335

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MINISTERIAL MINISTERY OF THE INNER Z. 876/38. Abbot C SdP, broadcast of brochures with the Lrily Karlovy Vary speech of Konrad Henlein to England. Ce 2SSG00C Presidium of the National Authority in Prague (Dr.Groušl) reports on June 18 at 4.40 p.m.: "Today at the post office in Aussig a.d.E.2 100 envelopes addressed to English lords (for example to Lord Snowden) have been abandoned; they contain a brochure containing the speech given in Karlovy Vary by Konr.Henlein and a printed accompanying letter to this text: Your Lordship! I agree with you on the text of Konrad Henlein's last speech on the programme, which he wrote on 24 September. and 25 April 1938 the annual meeting of the Sudeten German Party held in Karlovy Vary, with regard to the important interest which the questions of Central Europe and Czechoslovakia in general and the problening of the sudeten Germans in particular raised. I believe that it is appropriate to make available to you the unabridged text of Konrad Henlein's speech, which deals with these difficult and urgent questions on all sides. I hope and believe that you too will be interested in this matter. I ask you to receive the expression of my deep veneration. The brochure and accompanying letter are written in English. A small card in the form of a collated letter on nationality in Czechoslovakia is attached to the letter. A brief explanation is written in German, English, French and Czech. The card is taken from the work of Dr. Boháč. The brochure has 48 pages, size 13x20 cm, is allowed out nicely, on the unbeaten she has a map of Central Europe. The title is: SudetenGerman questions and the matter of central Europe. Below is the keyword: Konrad Henlein: We want to live as free people among free people. It is an introduction to the fact that the brochure is the first volume of a collection to deal with Central Europe's issues and to inform the Western European public.