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

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28.01/19 04615/48 - 2 - the aircraft works taken under fire. Usw. etc. .... Increasing resistance of the Norwegians. The mayor of Oslo finally amtsenthoben. National rallies in the theaters, destruction of the trade unions. Fraser talks about the last result of the round-up of the gallop society in the USA to explore public opinion: 52% are for America to join England in the war ---- more and more voices in the US are being voiced, which also have to actively support England, as a result of a danger that the US itself would be involved in the War. Just a year ago, the USA was strongly isolationist. •. How different it is today. Jn Uruguay tried to bring the war in ... 8 Germans were arrested ... America knows that the first line of defense lies in England. Already now, every week hundreds of American aircraft of all types arrive in England, America. Airplanes serve the RAF, 5o destroyers have been incorporated into the British fleet... the solidarity of the two largest democracies has received its visible expression. If the Jnvasion should begin, then the United States can expect total support. We hope to win the war with our own strength, but it is still reassuring to know that more than the heads of the great American people are willing to help us even at the risk that America should be involved in the war. On one side Deu tschland and the poor fascist Jtalia --- on the other side England and its young, powerful peoples of the world empire and the powerful USA- Who will endure it longer? L o n d o n - Czech. Jn Slovak language appears a summary of the last events. The csl. Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, who has returned from the USA and the Slovak Minister (not understood name ), who only arrived from Slovakia coming to London, was received today by President Beneschr. They accepted their nomination into the csl. government and took the oath. Yorker Post reports on the huge losses of the Germans in the canal ports. Thousands of dead, many ammunition and many ships have been destroyed. The bombs of the RAF are constantly falling on the German trosships, which are ready for the Jnvasion. An American rapporteur reported this morning from Berlin that the British Mascnins went down to 3oo m last night and bombed their targets. The Berliner haven slept very little last night. W C B X - New York - German. Londonä The actions against Dakar were resumed today despite yesterday's task by General de Gaulle. Official circles in London do not state whether landing attempts have been found. It is only pointed out in London that already in July and August German orifices arrived in Dakar to prepare for the occupation by Germany.