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

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148 - 2 - damage was inflicted. The Ministry of Aviation announces that the German attacks were continued during the last night. The main balance of the attacks was directed against Mittele gland, London and the area of the Mersčy River. The attacks ended only today in the morning hours. Some houses were damaged, and there were also some dead and injured in some districts in East and Middle England and South Wales, but very little damage was done. The csl.news agency in London reports: On October 8, a meeting of the Council of Ministers took place in London. After a discussion on various matters, Prime Minister Mag Sremek gave a report on the economic and political situation in the occupied homeland. Furthermore, questions concerning the csl. army were discussed. William Bullit, the former U.S. ambassador to France, spoke in a speech he gave in Chicsgo, outlining the suspicion that the three-power faction contains secret clauses directed against the US. Already through scane composition, the pact is a declaration of hostilities against the VSA. No one knows today when these hostilizations will break out. If it had been necessary for American people to warn of an imminent battle, then the people would have received this warning through the pact. ls is now the first task of the USå to strengthen its war facilities. Although planes are being built at the greatest speed, they should be built with rapid war. We should prepare ourselves in all fields for defence at such speed as we are already at war. It is of utmost wisdom to prepare ourselves as quickly as possible and to provide England with as much weapons as it is gruesome to prevent the enemy, to destroy it and to turn against us before we are prepared. The experiences in Europe have taught the US that it is in vain to try to find a peaceful solution to the dictators. One cannot reconcile those who do not want to be reconciled. Nor do we have such an intention. - The American Ministry of Agriculture writes in a report that Eurcpa is facing a serious supply situation. Germany, Austria and the CsR alone are able to manage the population in the way the rations provide for it. As for the other countries, such as Holland, Prankreich and Belgium, it is much more difficult to lay. The division is in the hands of the empire and is unfavorable for the observations of these countries. Admirelity announces the ship losses of the week ending October 1st: 7 British, 3 Allied and 3 neutral ships were lost with a voice of 63.ooo t. Political considerations of the day: / Ee speaks(a prau / heur, on October 22nd it is 2 years, Dana Praeident Benesch left Prague after he was forced to duddnk before. We know that the Germans do not like to think about it at all. They do not remember, as we know, the fact that they would much rather see Benesch in the concentration camp or in the Petschek Palace than at the head of the Cal. government in London. The association for technical-German cooperation could also be called the association for the purchase of Czech souls. The members of this association have now started their activities on behalf of the K.H.Franks, who also pays for this association, by failing to recruit members from the ranks of the technical public species. It is only questionable whether these Beanten sine co-operation with the Germans can imagine, given the fact that in the case of the -3