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

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26.M.4 237 -3 - left the "Vlajka". He justified his departure by not wanting to be a member of a movement of traitors and by having convinced himself that the Vlajkists were traitors. Rehling is a well-known painter of carricatures of Jews. He also exhibited his paintings in Nuremberg. There they found the pleasure of Hitler, who wrote to the painter his report. Everyone can imagine how tasteless his paintings have been. They can be compared to those from the "strucker". Perhaps some of his paintings are still hanging in the "Stürmer-Kasten" in "Schvarzen Rose". d d r Fememorders Gregory suppressed. (Presentation was very disturbed - also the further broadcast remained incomprehensible!) One wonders again and again how Hitler, if forced to come to the aid of his ally, would come. A march through Bulgaria seems, in view of the firm attitude of Bulgaria, more and more improbable. Bulgaria has decided, at least for the time being, not to join the axis. Three things had a great influence on this decision. The resistance of Greece and the strong support of England; the firm attitude of Turkey is the firm conviction that the signing-iw exchange between Germany on the one hand and the representatives of Hungary, Romania and Slovakia on the other hand is not a treaty but a parody of Bulgaria's accession to the Axis. This afternoon, Butler was questioned in the House of Commons about England's relationship with Bulgaria. (Explanation Butler - see under Berominster!) Spain is following the Greek people with the greatest reluctance. Spain is not only taking an increasingly closer view of the axis. The Stockhdlmer newspaper Aftonbladed reports that one is extremely disappointed with the defeat of Jtalien in Spain. It will not be very easy for Hitler to realize his plans with Spain. de q t c sa s minister Dr. Juraj Sloavik a statement for the Czechoslovaks in the U.S.: By the accession of the sogen. Independent Slovakia on the axis has changed the situation of things in the least. Slovakia Tukas has been a vassal of Germany since March l93g and has never led its own foreign policy. It was completely under the control of Germany, even in military matters. Even before the war against Poland, Deutschlan had the right to concentrate troops in Slovakia and prepared the campaign also from Slovakian territory. Slovakia also participated in this war, under German command. The territory of Slovakia was completely available to German troop and material troops. The signature of the pact in Berlin has clearly demonstrated to the world what the declaration that Slovakia is neutral has on it, and has clearly revealed the situation of things. The pact has also clearly demonstrated the urgent need for Germany to achieve diplomatic success in supporting such states, - 4 -