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Group Strictly confidential! Cultural policy matters Only for personal broadcasting and light duty. Use of service! Use of own responsibility oh to destroy! Test No. 000 ( § 353 c, RSPOB ). .. 5/±0.40 Reportexom 20. Auust 1940. te. ebsel. L o n d o n - Czech. It speaks Dr. Hugo Ripka, the Selretät des csl. Aussenamtes: Jch was at a Czech family in Hasting therknigh todd the day before yesterday evening as a flu alarm. To return to this family, I tell Jhnen mur that this family lost its father in the Velt war and I brought her the sad message that 2 sons fell on the Somme. It was 1 3 o'clock, the siren howling, we went to the shelters. By the way I noticed already. Jäger, who howled in the airs. Follows description of the mood in the shelter: No panic, women and children calmly and firmly decided to stay and endure everything, because the endieg is sure, of which all people are clear. When we left the Interstand again, we could see 2 crashed and shot off German bonbers. We all waved our handkerchiefs to our capable hunters, who were still in the air when no German machine could be noticed. In the afternoon there was an alarm again. This time I was in another shelter, in which almost exclusively children were, they behaved like men, no fear. Fun and laughter sounded. An old woman explained to me that she lost her son in France, But our pilots will know how to avenge this death. We will already show it to the Nazis. Jch told Jhnen this because yesterday evening we heard the Goebbels speech here in Prague and Östrauer Rundfunk. Yhnen was told that in Londen and throughout England there was the greatest panic, everything was confused, in short, it was a chaos. If it is not true, you will each live for 4/10.40. The secret of the English is their irreconcilable will to win, which is so strongly sus formed with no people except perhaps the csl. people. We could hear the reports of a German victory over England yesterday. True, however, is that .••. The Nazis will not defeat England, yes, not even with Waff n. Jch returned yesterday to London. It was one of the many quiet Sundays in the Lauptstadt of the British Empire. The German propagandist tell Yhnen, How London lives in a thousand Anges. leun, believe not a word. Yesterday, many Londoners went out to Croydon and wanted to visit the damage. What else did they see? Some damaged houses, nothing else. We,*Poland, Frn zosen, Belgian, Dutch, Norwegian and Danes, we are aware that every day that passes, the victory of Englandsgund danit draws closer to the freedom of called countries. President Dr. Benéech received today a delegation of the csl. pilots who came from France to England. The Preeident showed the reports of the Pläger about their work in France and about their flight from there great Jnteresse. lenese thanked the pilots for their work. Under the delegation there was also a captain who shot down 8 German laschines in France alone and who received the Cross of Merit of the French Army and the Order of Legion francais. Also present was a certain đetar (train leader), who destroyed 6 German bombers and the employment of another 5 on his -2