English Translation

T/ Lektorat G. New Yorkské Listy 12. XII. 1940, Nr. 1o : Thank you for the kindness of St. Budín Our thanks are actually not in a position. Because Mr. Herbert Hoover, who worked out the plan of an American aid for Belgium, Holland, Norway, Finland and Poland, "the five European democracies", subjugated by German Nazism, did not remember Czechoslovakia. Probably the Czechoslovaks do not need American food. It is possible that Czechoslovakia is not a democracy. It may be that the Czechoslovakians have it beautiful under Hitler and flow over their marred land of milk and honey... But if a campaign is being launched in America to send American food to Europe, it is being spoken in the breath of afteghbes8teistha devastated countries. We do not like this very much, but we cannot help ourselves: among these countries is Czechoslovakia, and therefore we consider this matter to be ours. Therefore, let us say that we are most grateful for the kind-heartedness. The Washington journalist Arthur Krock wrote that it is not fair to call Mr. Herbert Hoover an appeaser if he wants to feed the population of the Nazi empire, because Mr. Hoover also wants the English victory. From the past President to Cardinal O'Connoly to the pacifists and religious sects, everything in America is suddenly filled with the spirit of humanity, everything suffers from great heartache, everything has remembered the ten commandments and wants to feed the starving European women and children. Even the "New York Times", which Nazi propaganda claims to be the largest British newspaper in the world, believe that the pilots of the allied armies who are now fighting over England will fight better if they know that