STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 481, sig. 109-4/227 Page 47 · 47 of 91
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 481, sig. 109-4227
English Translation
t2 Your Exællenø! Minister of State I have tried to answer the oral and written questions for the best knowledge and certain. In accordance with your Excellency's wish, I have also allowed myself to add a few more reminiscences, which are in more specific relationships with the questions asked to me. With the expression of excellent respect I draw + of Your Exécellenz 19,10.1943. Beran Foreign political achievements in the fsekeekestvakisgken Czechoslovakia andntwibffsndergrjene in the years 1936 - 38. When I think back to the/outside and internal political situation in the ČSR especially in the last years of its existence, I can almost literally repeat what is mentioned in the book "The End of the Benesh Republic" (The Czechoslovsky Fagédie 1938). In this book, the author of the book of the current ministers of the Protectorate government Emanuel Moravec describes the development of the foreign policy of Czechoslovakia/ correctly characterizes the relationship of Czechoslovakia with the individual European states. As a leading employee of the "Lidové noviny" (The organ of Dr. Stránský - the unofficial sheet of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs) kattexer was in close contact with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and, as an officer of the General Staff of the Czechoslovak army, knew not only the conditions in the Ärmee, but also the military's attacks on the Foreign Ministry d.i. to the Minister Dr. Benesch. The author of the above-mentioned book correctly describes the mood of the Czech population and characterizes as a good journalist "The Soul of the Nation" so that I could quote almost literally from the book of Moravec in memory of some important consultations in ministerial meetings at Prague Castle. As a layman, I cannot deal with the military considerations of which there are a number in this book, since I understand nothing of military matters. The relationship between the Czech xAgrat party (Republican party de Baiern and Kleinlandwante) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the