English Translation

Prague, 18th Nov. 1939. Group 18 x Strictly confidential ! cultural policy matters To destroy immediately I French Runáfunkmeléungen. 4 Senders Toulouse Time: 22.45 - 23 pm p.9f Language: Czech lo 20}00 Reception: Very bad. / The broadcast was only partly understandable due to extremely violent disturbances. Polgendes could be admitted/t Über Prag und Umgebung as well as via Kladno and Horovice the state of siege was imposed. This took place by the new president of Bohemia Binert. The world has fallen deeply over the Prague murders. It is reported from Belgrade that the news of the 9 students' arrival there caused a turn of indignation and disgust.Yugoslav youth, who for the Czechs always had a feeling of fraternal love, expressed their disgust at the bloodshed in rallies at the university. The German envoy in Belgrade had to be attacked by Gendarmerie. The hit members of the former Czechoslovak community received numerous condolences. The "Osservatore Romano " publishes a lan- gen Komnentar to the Prague pre-filtration. The paper prejudges that the Eriágnicsen were harmless demonstrations of students, cie were brutally suppressed. In the Czech student circles sel first deshalv dissatisfaction was propounded, because the Preger Üniversitüt was taken over into the administration of the empire. Apart from the emotional side, however, the student demonstrations were an expression of political dissatisfaction. Jan Masaryk explained to a representative of the Xnxksiazad Press Association: "It is not yet a major reaction. However, I believe that such a reaction will follow later. Hitler and his helpers will certainly be destroyed." / The Sehluss of Benesch's statement to a representative of the Press Aesocistion, who, according to the previous broadcast, could not be admitted to disturbances, reads as follows: "Ee will come the day on which the new students become national heroes. The events in Prague prove that the fret esr persists. It is only a matter of time, itx - and indeed a very short time - that csR will be completely free politically and nationally. " /