THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 759, sig. 109-4/510

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60 Comment on the emergence of the note: # The Czech Prease concerns the noble Mintster = Prague, on February 7, 1940. Department: Subject: In absenteety of the main editor, the Head of Political Affairs Josef Schmidt has the political director Dr. Honolka ordered Czech press voices to take a positive view of the transformation of protectorate regulation. This happened in the statement that the hostile propaganda spreads slogans about dlese regterungs umbhaltung, which can best be worked against by citetes from the techechical press, /so the 1(1n agreement of the Czech public mtt the done Nassungen dazutun, Dr. Honolka translated an absct from the "Venkov" arrived in the late ibendststunden. Since until the end of the revolution only more sensuous #inuten c d a yesterday a day especially strong Ranuakriptinlaufes - by Schmidt the lanuscript provided with a title whose political stupidity at the moment did not make him feel at all. It is therefore a fugitive error, which Schmidt justified with the overburden of work dlese's day and sincerely argues. The principal author gave the political director Schmidt a sharp reference.