STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2755, sig. 109-14/58 (damaged)

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8 -- 2 194l was sentenced to death by General Eliás, and the sentence was only enforced again. News from Vichy announce that, except for General Elias, two other generals were executed with i arrested at the same time. "The German side did not report much about the attack on Heydrich. Except for the statement that the assassins, with the support of Kay-ans there, would have been hidden in the Bartholomew Church in Karlsplatz and should have been shot in the capture, the Nazis are hiding in silence. We know, however, that they are silent. May it have been shot in the Bartholomew Church, who wants, the assassins were n i c h t !2 15 minutes of talks with the homeland: In a speech the Polish Prime Minister Sikorski emphasizes the bond of the Czech and Polish peoples and spies of a friendly cooperation after the war. (The statements were partly in Polish and partly in Czech). "From Berlin we are informed that the death sentence has now been executed on former Czech Prime Minister Eliáò. It was significant that, after his arrest in September, General Eliáà was quoted before a German People's Court xn, even though the right to stand was still in the hands of tames. Eliád is said to have made a statement to the German court, which then filled the whole world with amazement. If this declaration had now been freely written by General Eliáà or under German compulsion, the sentences in which he declared that he had encountered on the part of the Czech Vclke a vieli- gian viderstand against a Czech-German cooperation are worth noting. These words showed even then before the whole world that all German measures against the internal intervention of the Czech people could not do the least. Even then the German defeat in the Czech countries was clearly documented in front of the eyes of the entire world." The "Checnoslov. Minister of State", Dr. Jaroslav Stránský, on the occasion of the return of the anniversary of the arrival of the Predecessors of the Council on the Old South Ring more than 300 years ago, commemorates 2l June and draws the parallel to today's events in the Tscnech countries. Pür den deutschen Imperialismi, so he concludes, and the intention of annihilation to all Slavic peoples is to the same extent responsible for the Zveite Reich Bisnarcks as Hitler's Third Reich. A part of Svatopluk Cech's "Lied des Slave" follows with about the following content: "When the hard fist rules, pay attention to your heart and keep your senses together! Save your strength until the time calls to the work! Then, O brothers, our flag will flutter in the bright morning light!" London (German, 20.00 o'clock): Repeat the message already received in the broadcast of 18.00 o' clock (German). Moscow (German: 20.30 o' Clock): No reference to the Protectorate.