STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2767, sig. 109-16/2

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4. Sano MAcH is very popular not only with the guard, but also with the rural population, especially of course with the youth. Make yourself well aware of this popularity.Mn ktebtxes I would like to say that he plays the "duke of Windsor". Minister of Finance Pruzinskyi found nowhere great attention and his speech in Banska Stiavnica Rxnd had hardly any success. Catholic pastors visibly lead the regiment everywhere. From the Auxiliary Bishop all are visibly striving to strengthen their own fosition with every word and every gesture. tt you praise the government, but also expect prompt consideration Therefore no minister or speaker, even the military, failed to call on God in their speeches and to show himself, e ostentatively, as good sons of the church. When the pastor and mayor of Banska Stiavnica spoke in front of the axis Berlin-Rom-Tokyo, he explained: Ing. Karmasin represents the Great German Empire, according to God the greatest power, Mr. Kitano is a representative of Tokyo, and Rome, although I am directly represented, is nevertheless present: although not the military, Kxxxxjxtexkxixxx spiritual, but the spiritual Rome - the spiritual. Ing. Karmasine - Germany: everywhere, in these purely Slovak regions, the presence of Ing dissolved. Karmasin's great applause. The mention of the Führer or the German Wehrmacht was every time a reason for spontaneous, long-lasting sympathies. Mood in the country: I got the impression that the simple rural population, very proud of the gained freedom, is ready for great sacrifices. The mention of Poland and Hungary has always led to protests and shouts.