English Translation

22 November 1939. International HELL Announcements about the Protectorate: 38 P BERN: Havas :"Despite the guarantees that HACHA may have given and despite the bitter investigations of the Gestapo, one can be assured in advance that the Czechs will move as soon as signs of German weakness become apparent. This is the statement in an article from Prague to the Catholic newspaper LIBERTE, Freiburg. The writer continues those who devote themselves to untiring underground work are very numerous. She is dictated to them by her relentless, h holy anger. The MAFFIA, an extensive organisation of conspiration, whose divisions cover the whole of Bohemia, has again awakened. The program, established in close cooperation between the Emigration and its friends remaining in the country, is successfully implemented. The German impatiences help with this. The aim is the recovery of independence. The means : The national conscience must not fall asleep. The general dissatisfaction and the hope of liberation are fuelled. The country must be kept in readiness, on the first favourable occasion,ixxxäetsk after the first serious German defeat, which shakes the German spirit, to shake off the 2 yoke." LONDON : Reuter : "The view that 99% of the population of Czechoslovakia is against the Nazi regime was spoken this evening by EDUARD GOLDSTUCKER, a Czech working student who is also a member of the National Student Union's Enforcement Committee. GOLDSTUCKERder fled from Prague in June, saying that the few friends of the regime, the VLAJKA group, were paid by the Nazis before the occupation to do propaganda work." Reuter published a statement by the FREIGN OFFICE at 1 a.m. that there was no relationship between the two incidents - the arrest of Elser and the two British agents. Reuter reports show that neutral foreign countries are strongly protesting against the announcement of the blocking of German exports Ru l0 o'clock. /