GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 717, sig. 110-5/6

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&a - 9 is that precisely this director is close to the Szalasi party. At the same time= this commissioner announced that a three-person works council would become involved in the management and soon all directors would become superfluous. However, we have similar phenomena throughout the country, whereby we must already note that Szalazi chauvinism is in full bloom. In all the factories, the employees were sworn in on the new leader and on the hungarian thought. Some officials thought that the city would be understood as a hungarian idea. Minister Rajniss told his officials that the one who does not receive food stamps would not receive them. In 64992, everyone liked to take the oath. In today's situation, only two questions are of importance to the country, namely: a) the defence of the country; b) the supply of the land (including supply of weapons); all other objectives of the party should be postponed until the enemy has been expelled from the country. Today, the Hungarian nation needs all forces. It's a lunatic, if every day looo to lo.000 people are pushed in front of their heads and buried. The celebration of power= took over is certainly something uplifting. Of course, this pleasure cannot be taken away from a party that so plodly fell the success in the lap. But there must be time for that later. For the time being, all the forces of the country must work to defend themselves. Of course, it is very easy to speak of an exuberant wine, one can explain that one would have to let things go for a few days. But that is nonsense. This awakens spirits that are no longer to be banished and, as is well known, crushed porcelain séhwer can be re-kittened. Interestingly, the takeover of power by Szalasi has not aroused any enthusiasm throughout the country. I drove across the country with the Wa=P- and nowhere did I see green shirts or party badges or any sign of political change, unless arrow cross flags were hung up in front of the mayor's office. But I saw on the other hand that the land is only partly ordered by the farmers, I unfortunately heard that the farmers everywhere begin to bury their harvest etc. The transport system of Hungary is completely down. The Hungarian railway lines were partly electric and it was therefore