English Translation

DeniM m Ritit εH1X Betr. Travel impressions from Slovakia. With my three-day trip to Slovakia I pursued a double goal: 1) After I had overtaken Mr. KITANO of the ASAHI-TOKIO of the necessity to first visit Slovakia before his visit to Budapest, I attached importance to accompanying him myself. 2) On this occasion, I wanted to get an interview with a leading political figure in order to obtain a Slovak rejection of the Benesch propaganda for a new "Czechoslovak" after the HAVELKA interview. The Slovak "propaganda office" as well as the "press offices" at the various ministries failed on this occasion. Sano Mach was just absent from Pressburg - and none of the other people took any Initia- R d d dd d d D d d da d d of the Slovak press Bureau to help to reconcile meetings with decisive personalities. In this way I lost the whole first day, on which I was only able to visit with Mr. KITANo the camp of refugees from the Karpatho-Ukraine. In the evening I was an eyewitness to the anti-Semitic demonstrations, about which I reported to London at 1 h early by stressing that it was a retaliation for overfalls in the Jewish quarter against German people. REUTER's - I hear, because I did not get a copy of it - seems to have made my report very clear. The report appears in particular in