English Translation

4a - 2 - the name of his father introduced there to make political affairs, and demanded in lectures to support the Jewish refugees. January 1939 Masaryk had a "heartful debate" with President Roosevelt, which apparently served the same objectives. But it was not until March 15, 1939 that the pro-Jewish agitation of the Czech emigrants began to run on full tours. From Toulouse, Paris and Daventry, from London, New York and Jerusalem, and finally from Moscow, a propaganda for Jewish world interests was launched in Czech broadcasts, which, in their insistence, gave away all too clearly their financial backers. The measures taken against Judaism in Bohemia and Moravia, soon after the establishment of the Protectorate, were precisely registered and accompanied by mourning songs, in which it was assured to the hostile foreign country that the Czech people of the homeland had "nothing in common with the fight against democracy and the persecution of the Jews". In the same way, the compatriots in the homeland were repeatedly summoned 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 "state council" in London, Klecanda, appealed to the homeland:"Everyone 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. Feierabend against "bestial anti-Semitism" swung the axe of war. "Every help to the Jews," was the thesis of the Czech emigration on the London radio, "will bring honor and glory to our own people and benefit once." Jan Masaryk liked to speak in one of his English fireplaces for the homeland 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, Frantissek Hnik, told his compatriots that "every blow against the Jews was also directed against us at the same time". From the beginning of the introduction of the Star of David for Protectorate Jews - 3 - 38692