English Translation

53 -Location commando, Abt. VI 1.VIII. 1941 P r a g I., Nürnbergerstraße 27. Confidential information no. 10. 1. On the situation. "It is still boycott, tomorrow it can become blockade", we shouted in the previous "information" when looking at the Far East situation. Today it has become practically blockade, tomorrow the powder barrel can go into the air, one must now add. With all. Appreciation of the mentality of the Far East (who still sees a hundred possibilities of handling, if we already think to hear the explosion), is not to be overlooked today that the situation on the silent ocean has become serious. America and England in the wake of the boycott progress to a kind of sanction against Japan. The freezing of Japanese assets in America and England (including Dominions) (apart from American export bans and restrictions as well as the termination of the English-Japanese trade agreement) has in practice led to the decommissioning of Japan's trade with these territories alone. Dutch India as a loyal tow vassal will not stand back. Of course, Japan has "stacked" something in anticipation of things, but if one knows what goods of vital importance for life and war came from Japan from the now closed economic areas, one must doubt whether the Asian mainland is a sufficient substitute. Besides the economic sanctions, the Anglocans are becoming a little more "open" in military terms as well. America no longer reflects the "silent border" in the Pacific. It has pushed its forwards considerably beyond Hawaii against Japan. The Philippines have been heavily upgraded, Chiang-Kaishek is still supported and the attempted connection with the Russians cannot be the same for the Japanese. There are dark plans against the French Indochina (the connection with Tschunking would be so desirable). Here Japan has made the first counter-attack through the pact with Indichina, apart from the economic countermeasures. It is the question of when will Japa make a blow in order to break a certain clasp. The problems of the Middle East have at the moment, in any case externally, something in the background, The A and the O is here, of course, for the English the defense of the life-important waterway of the Suez Canal, vital in the eyes of the supply and supply of the Nile Army. The way from the mother country leads anyway no more through the Mediterranean. German bombers did not glide over the narrow desert waterway for the first time, England struggled to expand its bastions to both sides of the canal. Transjorda- nien and Iraq were called as broad aprons to the north. Perhaps Iran is the next sacrifice. Then a connection with the Soviets would be created and the oil wells of Batum not far. - 2 -