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- 3 - 194 SENDER LONDON /deUtsCh/ Jan Masaryk, son of the deceased first csl. Prisidert en; currently Foreign Minister tnxäutanx of the csR in London /in German language/ speaks: "In the old Conarchy of Austria-Hungary we Czechs very reluctantly served in the army, although the Empire treated us much better than now Hitier and his executioners. Thousands of us went to America at the time and I myself had to go to New York gur Assentation. There my old friend Linhard asked me as chairman of the Modelling Commissions"Do you want to serve?" I said, "There can be no talk of that!" Then I was immediately declared unfit. I am telling you this because I want to prove that we Czechs have never voluntarily served a foreign rule. We did not feel well in Austria. But to serve Hitler, Streicher, Göring, färteg, Himmler and other Nazis directly vomits us. In Hitler's dictionary, the word truth does not exist. That's why Hitler believes that he can also force the Czech people to lie. He shows that he doesn't know us. We are a people who can only lie very badly in the long run. Each of us just says what he thinks. We're of a great honesty. Goebbels wants to make us believe that the Czech people deny their love of truth and feel comfortable in the cardboard lids of his choice hall theatre. We cannot feel comfortable here and I am convinced that no one in the old and the new world will believe this theatre and never give it to us. Every day, here abroad, we give our oppressed comrades at home the good advice not to let themselves be challenged, the day will come, as we and all the oppressed peoples will speak the decisive word honestly and uncompromisingly. Czech peasants, workers, teachers, etc. are always against the poison of National Socialism. Hitler has brought us to death, terror, lies and defamations, it can hardly be so stupid for anyone to believe that the Germans will gain or have already won our love and respect and affection with such methods. Goebbels himself does not believe that. I often think of Goethe's fist and the seductions of the Mphisto-feles and the end with horror .... /strangement/. The Czechs are good realists and so easily let us do nothing. For us, executions, concentration camps and Lublin are not political measures, but rather common murder, and it makes no difference at all for us whether the Hewr, who orders this, calls himself head of state and has the largest collection of looted art treasures in Eruopa, or whether he is a tramp and sells kitschy postcards. For us the idea of objective truth prevails and this expresses itself in freer ..? ... and culture, which, however, does not exist in Germany since Göring's Reichstagbrand. This culture cannot be killed or sent to the concentration camp with us, because it is deeply rooted in the people. Controlled by the limited mentality of the Nazi gangsters, our country becomes only a plundered cemetery for the curtailment of our ancestors. In the series of German victories and Allied defeats and in the oppressive days of our humiliation, we have learned something that Hitler is not given, and which he can never learn: light from darkness, truth from lie, right from wrong and God from the devil. - 4 -