THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2761, sig. 109-15/6

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- 2 - According to the decree of the Czech Constitution and the enactment of the broadcasting ban, which was tightened by an additional clause for Czech people, which were transferred to the Reich authorities in the Protectorate when seized, Mach developed an intensive activity, especially in the guard, which he would like to make a powerful instrument, for which the anniversary of the independence seemed to him an appropriate external framework.In Neusohl he spoke to the assembled HG functionaries of the Grantalgaues, announcing his plans outlined above. In order to eliminate the resistance of the Hlinka party, Mach leans increasingly towards Germanism on the one hand and, since the envoy refuses him official support, he seeks to renew the ties with the ethnic group, which now maintains close relations with the SS, because the people's Germans have moved in with the Waffen-SS and are still moving in, but on the other side he stands with the party and with the army very posti On 5 March he made a visit to the camp of the German department of the Slowa-Kische Arbeitsdienst in Grünau, where he emphasized in a speech the German-Slovak line very strongly and uva. On the question of the Jews, he said that it was the commandment of the hour to remove the last Jews from their common homeland/namely the Slovaks and the Germans/.His relations with the party experienced a tremendous plague in the small town of Sankt-Andrä near Neusohl, since Mach once again appeared there as a speaker in a party rally after a long time. The second case, where Mach openly confesses to Tiso.Possibly this is only a tactical moment, but the opposite side is constantly on the alert and even more activeThe Hlinka party took a decisive step with the convocation of a conference: the orientation of propaganda and enlightenment activities.The part: has also attracted the propaganda chief Tido Gašpar and is To a large extent, to gain influence on the activity of the propagandist, in order to sooner or later also install the propaganda office as a party service in the party apparatus. How petty the party often happens in its actions against the mechflügel, appeared in the award of the former Chief of Staff of the HG, Kubala, with the Cross of Merit of the German Eagle Order.The German delegation had provided the press with a report on the honor of Kubala with a subsequent life description of the award, in which Kubala was called a serving fighter for the Slovak cause and a helpful German-friendly guard.On instructions of the party and censorship, the life description had to be omitted and could not be published. Tiso's statement at a party training in Bánovce, where Tiso spoke to the Slovak emigrants, declared that they were lost sons and that the Slovak government wanted to take them back, but that they would tolerate them only as long as they served the welfare of the people.It was believed that they saw a concession to those agrarians who wanted to return to Hodja and who were immediately at the forefront of care, such as Turček, Danihel, Čarnogurský, Moravčík and others.