STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2186, sig. 109-9/10 Page 113 · 113 of 117
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2186, sig. 109-9/10
English Translation
95 "The already mentioned routine of Benesch in the exploitation of certain weaknesses of the policies of the Western Powers and the USA made him already after a few months of his stay in the states and in England new personal chants for a kind of political activism. His personal vanity, which is known to every Czech citizen in Bohemia and Moravia, and here in the country since lgl8 has formed an almost inexhaustible source for the Czech folk joke, was the driving force for this. Thus Benesch began to appear exactly in the same way as a European broker in the political drive of the Allies, as during the First World War. The beginning of the second paragraph on page 2 I propose to for- mulate in the following way: "After four years of activity in the enemy states he had no success with the majority of his Czech people in the homeland... .... In order to take the wind out of the sails from the beginning of the expected British counterarguments, I recommend insert the following sentence in the second paragraph on page 2: "This is not only for us, but also a guard known in the neutral bands, which cannot be denied, even if the English should deny it today for understandable reasons. The final atz on page 2 and the first sentence -4