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

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Group Strictly confidential! Cultural policy matters Only for the personal radio and light service. Use of services! 47//% to destroy their own responsibility! Test No. .... ( § 353 c, RSTGB ). Reports of 6 September l94o. L o n d o n - Czechoslovak broadcast (Slovak). 1.19.40 A speech by the csl. envoy in Washington, Hurban, .uf Grammophone records is reproduced: Spokesman at the beginning describes the great sympathies that exist in the USA for the CSR. The New York Times very often brings news from the CSR and the active intervention of csll. Air Force in London was particularly highlighted by the newspaper. It is the best sign of the Czechs and Slovaks' determination to regain freedom alongside England. --- Afterwards, Hurban describes the German barbarism in a well-known way in the CSR. In the USA, all this is well known and just as after the overthrow, the sympathies of the USA are entirely on the side of the CSR and everything is working towards a re-establishment of the Republic. Even if the tragedies of America's first year of war have brought the suffering of the csl. people into oblivion, they will not be forgotten when the day of reckoning comes. It is known in the USá that the CSR not only has the right to be a free state, but also has the ability to determine the fate of the csl. people themselves. - Finally, Hurban notes that the so-called Slovak government under Tuka is a Hitler government and that it is a farce. In the first year of the war, all Slovaks have already opened their eyes to the so-called freedom, to those who still believe in Slovak freedom, they will open their eyes in the second year. In August, large demonstrations of the Czechs and Slovaks took place in America. Thus once over 6.ooo Czechs and Slovaks in the streets moved, against Hitler de-monstrating. The American population applauded and joined. They did not forget the CSR in the USA! L o n d o n - German. Lecture of an American journalist ? Edvard Told )? who lived for a long time in Germany. The speaker deals with German socialism, he uses phrases and then comes to speak on German literature and science. " Jn London is shown a film of a German. The unforgettable Albert Wassermann plays Dr. Koch. Jm Ausland weiss man-edie deutsc e Wissenschaft and the German literature more appreciated than in his own country. Conversation of a Frenchman, Czechs and Belgians in a London coffee house. Nothing new, only repetitions of the Nazi methods in the occupied territories. The three speakers compete in the reproduction of the reports.-- Difficulties of the Germans in Belgium and Norway. Fires and sabotage, arrests and newspaper settings in Norway.