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

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12.T.Ae4Av0 are heavy. They lost the "Graf Spee" , l5 torpedo boats and many others. America has 500 heavy hunters and new bombers, About Switzerland we learn that Germany is afraid not to be able to keep pace in production with America. The great american President Loover said: All USA is for Britain to receive the greatest possible support . Above all, weapons and "aschins must be sent. Talking with the homeland: They hear a talk: "of the hope that the world can be taught." I tell you an identical fairy tale: There was once a rich landowner and then there were poor farmers nearby, there came robbers and robbed a poor farmer. But the rich man didn't come to the aid, because he thought, "What's my business?" and it doesn't threaten me." The robbers robbed the next farmer and so on and drove them away from their farms. When he attacked the last poor, the rich one wanted to help, but the help came too late. Then the turn came to the rich landowner. And then the farmer, who was the first to be robbed, said: "You have abandoned me, but I will not leave you, because the bee to the land also tells me to defend the country that I have left." This story reminds us of our fate. We were also first robbed, the Germans closed our universities and the Sokol. They begin Germanization. The fact that they close the Sokol is a new reason for us to keep Britain. The number of de- rer, which is against Hitler, is increasing. Our policy is freal, so she relies on Great Britain and America. The Germans betray their weakness through their actions. They had to close the sokol because they do not feel awake to the great national resistance. First they fought the legionaries then the Sokol. Prokop Maxa speaks! Neurath, Frank and the other helpers do not know what a great service they do to us through their barbarism, they show how right we are, The Czech resistance grows. First the Germans fight the legions and then the sokol. They do not understand that it is possible to eradicate the socoltum. Erxt int the noblest expression, which grows from the inside of our nation. No Czech and Slovak forgets that Masaryk has preserved his spiritual freshness through the sokol. With Eyrsch he felt that a healthy mind lives in a sun- the body. He recognized the Sokol as an important educational factor for democracy. And today we have to be vague that the Socol has solved this task well. The Sokol is connected with the memory of the white-haired figure of the Liberator President. In Russia, France and İtalia, the So Col demonstrations have aroused admiration, just as today in Ehgland. The Germans do not understand the spirit of Sokol, which Tyrsch and Fügner have greened and gave to the Masaryl of this conquest. We remember the beautiful figures of these 3 men and place beside them the bearded of the gymnast Jahn, the old grandfather, who was the main focus of the Prussian discipline. As soon as the hour of dislocation strikes, a hundred thousand lambs of the Sokol army will rise.