STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43 Page 201 · 201 of 329
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43
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Division IV Group Radio Strictly confidential! Broadcasting and Helldienst Dich tgelrauch! %0. In own responsibility to destroy Prif. - Nr. 00 /§ 353c RStGB/. Listening reports from 2 and 3 November 1940. $.u.d. Sender LonDon /Czech/: /.4/17.40. The Italians have been prompted to believe that the conquest of Greece which they have begun will not become an unimpeded advance to Athens and the Saloniki, as they had done. In the hope that the Greeks might still change their mind, they fly over the country to drop bombs and fliers. However, both have no influence on the decision of the Greek people. The Greek Prime Minister answered the frax bombs with the vow that the blood of Greek children will be avenged. Also the flying sheets, which are written in the worst Greek, and in which the Talinners ensure that they have no hostile intention against the Greek people, will be duly answered if necessary. The Greeks have expressed their attitude by shooting off several of the planes that dropped leaflets. The Greek people are perfectly united and are united behind the government. Foreign agents were immediately taken into custody and there is no 5th column with the Greeks themselves. The working class has been united behind the government and believes that, despite all previous political differences, the leaders of the country are real patriots who would never betray their country to the plans of the new European order. Even the Communists have stood behind the Government. They have explained: this time we agree with the Bourgeois government. The leader of the Communists, who had just lost a prison sentence in Athens, immediately asked to be dragged to the front as a simple soldier. The Greek population is generally outraged by the insidious Italian bomb attack on Patras, in which the deceitful methods of the Italians are expressed as the Italian have marked the attacking maschine nit Greek marks. The population cheered the machines in the opinion that they were Greek machines, and was then bombed and MG-fired by the Italians from a low altitude. The general confidence and confidence of the Greeks is only strengthened by the great achievements of the greek army and by the fact that they are informed by the imminent intervention of England. It is known that the arraignments of England still have to be kept secret. Brit. Marine officers who have already arrived in Athens and some of the islands are rapidly preparing for British-Greek cooperation, and the Turkish President's statement on Turkey's position was also encouraging. In Greece, too, the clear language of the Turkish press about the consequences of Bulgarian entry into the war and the Jugusla-wiene declaration that the country remains neutral, provided that its borders are not violated, is noted with satisfaction.