STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2186, sig. 109-9/10

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86 -5 Sirev disavowed the most embarrassing. Secondly, the agility in Washington did not make him think of Stalin. Therefore, on no occasion did he fail to speak of a closest cooperation with the UdssR. However, the reward from Moscow has failed to do so, because this has not yet taken notice of it, as in any case of his trip to the United States. Although Benesch's trip to the United States of North America is noted with interest by the Czech population of the Pro- auareautrtt tektorate, it did not have any political impact on the broad mass that was so/disappointed. In this country, however, one is extremely sceptical about Benesch's playing with Moscow and strongly opposed in the broadest circles. The ground-rooted Czech people do not want to know about Bolshevism in its pronounced sense of family, private property, merit and rise in its vast majority. Today there are only small illegal communist groups in the Protectorate, the broad mass of the Czech population refuses to hand over their homeland to Bol-shewism by Benesh. It is only too well known in this country that Benesch, when his selfishness demands to bring his people into every iage, is willing to make such and similar statements to me in as- 1aolfaum the long-term talks until the last days leading figures of the former Czechoslovak agrarian party, the Social Democrats and Christian Social Affairs as well as the trade partners. V o Ho o be Hofinn f