THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43

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1s 2 - From the Occupied Countries: In Norway, all editors of a Norwegian newspaper were arrested because the newspaper attacked the Norwegian government in an article. The German newspaper in Lodz, which so often reported on the bestial reports of Poland, is about the fact that one year of German rule could not change the Polish mentality. The Japanese press, which wrote yesterday for an understanding and normal relations with the US, is again threatening the US. Asahi Schinbum writes: If America does not change its attitude, this will lead to disaster. The US would have to know that in the event of a riedious war with Japan, the most important war shipments from East Asia and the Pacific would stop. Another Japanese newspaper writes that everything has its limits and no one knows what can happen if they are exceeded. How impact in America on these threats is the strengthening of American resistance to the Japanese demands in the distance Vgten also in an acceleration of defense preparations The american press reflects the opinion of some american congress members, in which it is said that the US will not give small in the Far East. Perhaps that Japan comes to mind with us, then our path will be clear, because we do not want to buy, but it is not likely that Japan will decide on this solution. This attitude of the members of Congress is endorsed by the entire American press. The Chinese destroyed the Japanese during a six-day battle south of the Yangtze between Sehanghai and Hankau 7ooo. Russian ambassador Maiski in London visited an air shelter in East London yesterday. He was asked by the residents for a speech. From a Hanekarren he gave a speech and said, "My wife and I were very pleased and will bring even greater joy in my home country." The American passenger steamers Washington and Manhattan will evacuate American citizens from the Far East. Hull announces that 5 American passenger ships are already in these waters. Some Americans have already left. Parisian audiences have spontaneously applauded the British bombs in a cinema at the images of destruction shown by the weekly shows in Berlin. The German military administration has threatened to block all cinemas. -i Yesterday at noon German troops were promoted in the motor vehicle through the streets of Bucharest. The officers drove ahead of them in cars with the standards of the respective regiments. At the same time Boo overflagged German planes Bucharest and the Romanian oil bet. Follows lecture, spoken of a woman /unfortunately because of severe disturbances partly only understandable in fragments/: -3