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Excerpt_copy. Group d d d de sohnliche Dienstleistung. In own cultural affairs responsibility to destroy. Broadcasting and Helldienst (353 c RSTGB) Früfnr, 2/I1/40 Auslands HELLFUNK: REUTERI Berichte vom 24.Juli 1940. .. London: "The composition of the provisional Czechoslovak government formed here today becomes officially qa c Eduard Benesch, President of the Republic of Jan Sehramek, Prime Minister, Ingr, War, Jan Masaryk, Host Ed. Outrata, Finance, Georg Slavik, Ministry of the Interior, Frant. Nemec, Social Welfare, Afternoon, Nemae, Osusky -t Minister of State, Viest, Secretary of State at the Ministry of War, Ripka, 4 at the Foreign Ministry, Becko 4 at Ministry of Welfare. Benesch, who commented in an interview on the recognition of the Czecho-Slovak government, stated that recognition is not merely a moral and political ef- fect of the whole Czechoslovak nation, but is the best proof for all countries that. England has decided to fight until the end for the right and independence of the small nations and in this way to strengthen all free and subjugated peoples against the Nazis. 2 The Czechoslovak army and pilots are now here to participate in the defense of England and in the joint struggle against Hitler and against Nazism. The national a million Anerican Czechoslovaks, who are developing a major activity in America, not only for the