STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1801, sig. 109-5/29

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382 Security Service RF the 7.10.41. SD department Prague BNr. to the SD section Prague in Prague. Tagesbericht Nr. 227/41. In addition to Kru liš - Randa and Fou sek, the board of the office of the State President Dr. P o p e l k a is again regarded as a serious candidate for the Prime Minister's post. The secretary of NG Press Department B e r g e r had an interview between the chief author Ryba and the NG chairman Fousek, which took place yesterday. Zwedk of this meeting was allegedly the resumption of the Ng's pedrawings to the activist Czech editors. Ryba was primarily intended to be a mediator between these two. Kožišek will be the only representative of the Protectorate press with a group of journalists compiled from Belin, who will shortly go to the fighting areas of the East. Activist editors Krychtálek, Lažnovsky, Werner, Grha and Kremen are said to receive the cross of war, as told in Czech journalists circles. In Czech journalists' creeds the rumor was spread that General Syrovy had suicidalised on 7th of July. This alleged act had happened in connection with the obvious events. In Prague-Werschowitz near the local "Eden" a picture of SS leader Heydrich, cut out from a Czech newspaper, was taken to a wooden fence.