English Translation

b/ he had suggested that he found a weekly magazine with the task that the young Czech intelligence had soon reached a circulation of 30 O00 pieces before Bolshevisation as before Radicalization nost" and had struck very well. When Peroutka claimed that he had always kept his newspaper independently of all the directives, I put it by throwing in that he already admitted to the extent to which the foundation of the Přitomnost alone had declined on the influence of the "castle". However, he certainly received suggestions for articles again and again in his conversation with Masaryk in the following time and perhaps also took concrete orders to influence the Czech internal politics in the direction intended by the "castle". Peroutka resisted an admission in this regard by pointing out that he also sent Masaryk back from this sent-in article several times, that he had capitulated to no authority, and that if he had followed MasaryK politically in some things, it had been out of convincing veneration. He admitted, however, that he had taken part in the sharp polemic of K r a m a ř - Be n e s.c h on behalf of Masaryk against Kramař. He had not received any orders from President Benesch, who he had never even seen between 1935 and 1938. In March l938, shortly after the connection of the Ostmark, he and his friend Karl Ö a P e k had been invited by the German envoy Ei s e n l o h r to Schloss O s o w near Doberschisch. Eisenlohr had given the two about the following to understand. He had noticed very worrying developments in the Czech internal politics, but was not in a position to point out the constitutional factors as a ventreter of the Great German Empire, because this could be interpreted as an unauthorised intervention in the internal political conditions of his host country. He therefore wanted to share his thoughts with Pe- routka and Čapek, with the local authorities, to make use of it or not. Subsequently, there had been about four to five meetings. He (Peoutka) had truthfully reported to President Benesch and Foreign Minister K r o f t a each time.