STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43 Page 90 · 90 of 329
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2740, sig. 109-14/43
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Odd Strictly confidential! Military affairs Only for the personal 83 radio and light service use! To be destroyed on your own responsibility! /§ 353c RSTGB/. $.c d B e r i c h t e of September 2nd l940. 1.2310.40. SENDER LONDON /Czech/: This week, as on the occasion of the tkkekxnxxkkxix death of Masaryk so much has been dabbed to him, we want to devote some reflections to his relations with England and his local stay. That MasaryK mainly led his struggle in England is only natural. It was the country which was closest to him inwardly, of which he regarded culture as the best and most humane. In comparisons between German and English culture, he placed the English high above the German .... He absolutely believed in the victory of his cause. He drew this faith from the exact knowledge of the birt. and the German people, their moral and material abilities. He owes this knowledge to his observational abilities and to the fact that he did not underestimate any informational guelle, from the newspaper to the reaction of the people in the cinema as a means of accurate knowledge of a people. Never, even in the heaviest moments of the world war, did he lose his absolute faith in the final victory of the truth. Today the situation is not much different than then and we want to imagine what Masaryk would think of today's situation. At that time, as today, there was the very well-prepared Germany, which in a short time was able to submit to a large part of the European continent. But never was the British people so determined not to give up the fight until the enemy is defeated, as it is today. If we use Masaryk's methods of observation and analysis, we come to the creation that Masaryc today would have been more convinced of the final victory than at that time. Even today, the moral and material weight is on the part of England and today, too, the truth must prevail if on its side is the will to win. A soldier who returned from Germany to a Norway in front of his Urlaib reports of the enormous damage caused by the British bombardment in Hamburg. He explains that in the morning he could not recognize the district in which he lived. Today a formation of unknown soldiers tried. The British hunters waited until the last German formation had left the sea behind, formed a circle around the enemies and began the attack. After a few minutes the enemy was scattered and fled in disorder and with the greatest speed back over the empty. Some of the German machines were shot down. Numbers were not yet announced. Yesterday evening the German engines tried to reach London on a new way, but they did not manage to avoid the heavy defensive fire. They dropped bombs on a large part of the city. Residential buildings and public buildings were blown. - 2