STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43 Page 227 · 227 of 329
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43
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bV2 - 3 - In this sense, therefore, he is actually the spiritual leader of the Czech people. This seems completely natural and logical to the Goebbele! Our Masaryk would never have boasted that he was leading the people, but that it really was so could not have doubted even Goeb Bel. I can only tell you today that Austria can never be the future of our people, because if Austria had not so neglected the true interests of its peoples, there would never have been a revolution of the Czech people under Masaryk. The truth is that Austria was already the vassal of Germany at that time. The oppressions in Austria before the World Wars did not revolutionize the Czech people so much, rather demoralized them. The pre-World Wars were not the best pages in our chronicle. Only during the World War, when our peoples were to bleed for a bad cause, did a change in our thinking occur. But the idea of a Palacký that one had to come to a European community was only despised by Habsburg. Hitler was already on the march at that time, he is not the author, but only the result of the Pangermanist thought. We Czechs were already sunk down to a protectorate in the world wars, so our resistance to the German Einiringlinge will be nothing more than a continuation of the struggle against the Viennese government. But since under Austria we could at least protest against some things and organize something, how could we reconcile and accept today with the spirit of terror and barbarism? We know very well that Germany as a smith continues what Austria has begun as a blacksmith. SENDER LONPON /deutsch/: Molotov was allowed to be back in Moscow. At the moment, his stay in Berlin is said to have given him new material for reflection in the air attack on Berlin and the heroic act of Taranto. So far, no new German-ruasitches agreement has been announced. It is remarkable that various wise experts who had come to Berlin in the wake of Molotov did not leave with him again to Moscow. However, the German economic expert, Schnurre, Molosv, accompanied him on his trip to Moscow. This seems to indicate that the discussions will lead to an economic discussion. Germany seems to be looking for a country which can try to do the same for Germany as America does for England. Italy's economic difficulties are due to its dubious milit. Values make an "economic winter aid" from outside extremely urgent. The Swedish newspaper Stockholmg Tideningen writes: Although the Russian and German leaders seem to have come to an agreement in the economic field, they do not seem to want to work more closely together politically. As far as Turkey's position is concerned, it seems unlikely that, following recent events in the Mediterranean, Turkey would abandon England, and Russia certainly does not intend to embark on adventures in this area. Cooperation, however, is making tremendous progress on other subjects: It became a German-Italian. lddcauaschues - 4-