STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2607, sig. 109-12/255

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In the same way, the compatriots in the homeland were repeatedly sworn in '13a to distance themselves from the measures of the Reich Protector and to provide the Jews with help and encouragement, as and where only possible. For example, the member of the Czech "Council of State in London, Klecanda, appealed to the homeland: "Every one of us feels with the Czech Jews and stands by their side, as well as they stand on our side, while Mr. "Minister of Finance" Dr. Afternoon against the "bestial anti-Semitism" swung the hatchet of war. "Every help to the Jews was the profitability thesis of Czech emigration on the London radio, "will bring honor and glory to our own people and benefit once." Jan Masaryk liked himself in one of his English fireplace talks for the home country with the final sentence of paternal exhortation: "Good night and do not forget what I told you about the Jews." A lecturer of the Hus Faculty, František Hnik, told his compatriots that "every blow against the Jews at the same time was also directed against us. On the occasion of the introduction of the Star of David for Protectorate Jews, Dr. Hubert Ripka treacherous words are heard: "If they have now introduced this sign with us, you can no longer change anything, but we want to tell you that we all believe that you Czechs and Slovaks will not do the least you should be ashamed of. And you Czech-Slovak Jews listen and remember that we all think of you with deep compassion and look at your suffering with pain. The sign you will be wearing tomorrow will be a sign of honor that all decent people will be aware of."In a banal lecture on the high trembling topic "On Life and the World," Beneš's "Minister of Justice" Dr. Jaroslav Stransky assures that the claim of Jewish world domination is nothing more than "bold Berlin propaganda." Jan Masaryk gave special consecration to the visit of the former Czecho-Slovak State Day in London through his lecture at a Jewish protest rally. In view of the unravelling chain of such pro-Jewish friends' evidence of Czech emigration, it was not surprising that, as early as 1939, the Jewish side, by a representative of the Israelitische Konsistorium in Paris, passed on the congratulations of the French Jews to the Czechs there for the State Day.