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

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Excerpt from transcript. adarug Strictly confidential Cultural policy matters Only for the personal radio and light service. Use of service! To destroy on its own responsibility I (§ 353 c, RSTGB). Verification no. 26/11/40. Reports of 14 August 1940. L o n d o n - Czech. Call of csl. Minister of Care Franz Viest to the csl, workers and workers: I speak to you from the land of freedom and I am very happy that we are fighting here together for the freedom of our country and people. Vir are strong through our belief in the final victory. I do not hesitate to say to you that our task is not only to help those who had to leave home or those who left home to fight with the weapon in their hand for freedom, but it is our main task to prepare everything that we can do in our free country, which we hope will soon be able to continue with what we have had so successfully for 20 years. We can rightly explain that we have done everything very well. We will continue in our good and honest work, we want our country to become free and that free and happy Kenschen live there. We must remain strong. You have worked on your free organization for many years. Today all your work lies in ruins at the command of foreign dictators. It has been destroyed all that you have developed with such care. However, this is only temporary, never free, equal Birger, who have known the freedom to give it. You are now enslaved because the Nazi government wants to create slaves. But this is a vain attempt. In Europe there are only free countries and there will be no lords and no slave. This struggle, which the world is suffering now, is not fatal, but only the healthy and strong will survive it. Be strong about it, take care of your organizations, you will need them if we will rebuild the country together. The new beginning will be difficult, but we will not be terrified of being united with all those who are good will. We must be strong in order to win in the Kahpfe, and we must be as strong as we are in order for freedom to be guaranteed forever. There can be no free workers in an unfree people. Our goal is a free people, a free state, a freedom of labour. We fight for these goals, we die for deeé's goal, even if it has to be. We want a strong and true democracy, a democracy of free people that will prevail over violence and slavery. We will provide for the workers, for the widows and children of the workers; there will be work, etc.. We now live in England, where every human being is free and equal. The workers enjoy all the rights and, out of gratitude, they have proposed to work 12 hours a day to contribute their daily work to defeat the enemy in the shortest possible time. I do not have to explain here why we support the superhuman struggle of England for its freedom and the freedom of the other peoples. Masaryk said: Humanity does not mean putting your hands in the lap when