English Translation

104 Secret Report on the political situation in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia for the period from 15.3. to 10.4.1941. The Reichspropagandaministerium (Department of Foreign Affairs) expressed on 7.d.M. the desire to obtain the opinion of leading Czech personalities on the events in the south-east for use in the foreign press. The responsible head of department then turned to the Office of the Reichsprotektor, Ministerial Council v. Gregory, with my admission to the Czech editor-in-chief of the "Večer" called Krychtalek, known in the Protectorate, who is regarded as a Yugoslavian expert, advised him to conduct three short interviews with the Czech ministers Havelka, Ježek and Krejči on the events in the south-east and to touch on the situation of the Protectorates in the Great German Reich. In carrying out this task, Krychtalek informed the Czech Prime Minister Eliáš on the same day and presented the following two Pragues to the three ministers: " 1.) How do you assess the negative position that Greece and Yugoslavia have taken on the construction of the new Europe, and 2.) how do you evaluate the decision of the President of the Republic Dr. Hácha in March 1939 in the light of these new events?" None of the three Ministers had the tendency to ask themselves about the interview and answer the questions asked. Their spokesman - as - 2 -