English Translation

The intellectual circles, which are clearly marked in this speech, interpreted the acknowledging words of the Secretary of State about the positive achievements of the Czech workers and peasants as meaning that this recognition was only to be understood from the plight of the Empire, which required Czech cooperation. Nevertheless, they could not prevent more German-friendly voices from being voiced, especially in the last few weeks, from Czech workers and peasants, unless it was pointed out that there was constant disappointment at the development of foreign policy in general. In this context, it is also noteworthy that the crisis of the protectorate government resulting from the anti-German behaviour of some ministers, which ended with the withdrawal of the minister of transport and the executive board of the President's office, Dr. Havelka, showed almost no atmospheric effect in the great mass of the Czech people. If, at the end of April, a fairly balanced mood of the Czechs can be spoken of in this way, insofar as hopes and fears about the future fate of the czech people are at the moment about to balance themselves, the continuation of the anti-German attitude is nevertheless not to be overlooked by the vast majority of the Czech Volken. Only the fear of German criminal measures and the war against unusable "premature" strike by the London broadcaster can be attributed to the fact that - with one exception (hand grenades attack on a home of the German children's country dispatch) - more serious active acts of resistance have so far remained. Against this, the anti-German sentiment continued to be expressed in numerous individual cases (in insulting and threatening German friendly Czechs, in economic and other obscuration of Germans, in impurity of National Socialist posters or inscriptions and many other minor declarations).