English Translation

The Reichsprotektor 25 May 1939 6 in Bohemia and Moravia Prague, the $\ group of cultural political affairs. 226 Ee is asked to give the fres Geschästozeichen and the counterfand for further scribbles. Journal "Přitomnost": Invitation to Maffia. Dr.v.H. The editor of the "Přitomnost", F.Peroutka, writes in the last number of the magazine of May 24th about the task that the Czechs are waiting for in the next time. The remarks are therefore particularly interesting and revealing, as F.Peroutka makes clear in them for the first time what has been done by the whispering pröpaganda for a long time and what's the content of the in-official Czech national community, namely the same organization of the Maffia as at that time in the "fight against Austria-Hungary". Although he tries not to openly express his opinion and the opinion of the unofficial national community, he goes so far as to explain this view so clearly that it must be understood by every Czech. Det most important passage from his article in this regard says: "We must be able to work in the framework of the protectorate laws as we were able to do in the context of the Austrian laws. We know that in the 2nd century the Czech people swung up more by an unpolitical than by a political policy. So this old and commendable achievement must now be repeated. One must appeal to the Czech energy, which raised us from nowhere already at the time of the Austrian government! At another point, "It will be necessary to endure the excitement for a little while." Peroutka tells the readers that it is not now possible to say everything as you would like, and states as an excuse for this that "it is now necessary that the readers can only get the new position of the press right through their heads .... He said that various old views were no longer propagated, and that there is now much more to recommend a different type of activity." He wrote about censorship practice: "Until last autumn, we had freedom of the press,