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

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793 nom Morplon lfpan gi mfen in London for the execution of the assassination and asked for the underlasing of the murder. Beneš, however, who needed the murder, who had to prevent it from happening after knowledge of the true mood in the Protectorate, did not do so, let the murderers, with whom he-in punk connection ašemdy, free run, and thanked on 3.6.1942 in a punk sentence for the carried out act. The exultation in the Czech Lendon programme and the formulations in Beneš's speeches are the "enugtuung about the success of the Movdén strike. How false the account of Beneš was was, [the Czech people's plots, which were then hurled against him in the Pretektorat, showed the respiration and relief of the whole Czech people when the murderers and their helpers were caught. The intentional effect in the Protectorate, i.e. to induce the insurrection and sabotage actions of the Czechs, has not been achieved. To what extent English and American Beneš believed that the Czech people were in the protectorate or were in revolt, is beyond my knowledge. If they believe it, they are in error. Although the bomb dropped a man and struck a number of Czechs into trouble, the calm and order has not been disturbed since then and the Pretektorat with its population works with all its strength for the empire. 2. Question: Also the active diplomatic activity of Beneš in the last few weeks is on the same sheet that carries the caption "the vain Beneš. He still has unbelievably from the world wars ven-alle in Lendon-living emigrants-the-be-nimfaugrainfu - the most important observations and, as he informs us in the letter from Ok- tober l942, he is particularly proud to have stabbed the Poles, whom he has despised as a civilized Western Slav since his life in London. He himself considers sic to be the greatest European steateman, the English and Americans constantly lectures on the true