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

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English Translation

On 17 June 1942, Minister of Agriculture Hruby received the heads of the Krychtalek, Ryba, Werner, SCheinost, Chalupa and the representative of the chair of the Arno Hais National Trade Union Centre for a debate on a joint action by the activists. The clerical editor mentioned to the East that the cleric press intended a press campaign against the former minister Sramek (currently in London). Chalupa proposed the elaboration of a state-law programme on the future of the Czech people in the context of the empire. Hruby pointed out to the individual participants of the discussion for the written preparation of their rrekers The Council matter that in the last days no court rulings were published on the radio, was generally noticed by Germans as well as Czechs. German circles in Kolin e.g. We are disappointed because it would then be concluded that the more severe sanctions in recent times have apparently been lifted. On the Czech side, it has already been pointed out to Germans that it would have been obvious that the whole Czech people could not be held responsible for the actions of the people. The Czech population is not so convinced that the enforcement of court judgments will not continue. In the Czech districts of Schüttenhofen, for example, the view is predominant that a further publication of the court's judgments is excluded only to the extent that foreign countries do not get a numerical picture and that the large number of judgments are prevented from worrying about the population in political terms. In Budweis, Czechs said that the publication would fall away because Roesevelt had threatened the leader in the ultimate form to have all Germans living in Ameri- ka shot in retaliation. Thus, Pilsen is reportedly spreading that in New York a large propaganda parade - 10 -