English Translation

19a - 2 - Last during the whole existence of the ÖSR led by Dr. Benesch was never special. Although the agricultural party as a member of the government coalition in parliament approved the rallies of the foreign minister, there was often xmxsixe between the representatives of the republican party in the government and in parliament (especially between Švehla and Dr. Hodža on the one hand and Drs. Benesch, on the other hand), to serious differences with regard to the external policy of Che hoslovakia. However, the two mentioned agricultural politicians also criticized numerous others and in particular the agricultural press in a very good way the politics of Dr. Benesch. This was well known to the whole public, because the reflection of these conditions in the public was reflected in sharp polemics between the press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Prague Press, "Lidové Noviny", Právo Lidu, "České Slovo" and the rest of the socialist press) and the agricultural press ("Venkov", "Večer", Lidový Dennit, "Svoboda"). The chairman of the Švehla agricultural party and the whole party had nothing to do with the conclusion of agreements and treaties with the Western powers (France-England), but differed with the views of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the policy towards the SSSR, especially with regard to the activities of the Comintern. The Czech agricultural party defended the position that biér d.i. Czechoslovakia should not intervene in the internal conditions of other countries and that we should defend ourselves in other ways in our affairs. That is why we have always fought the Comintern openly at consultations and also at public rallies and in the press, and have continued to fight against interference in the affairs of the Empire and in particular in Spanish affairs during the Spanish civil war (while the official policy of the Foreign Ministry and its press clearly supported the actions against General Franco. In Parliament, too, we made our views quite openly on this issue, and we also clearly and openly condemned the support of the various emigrants who had come to Czechoslovakia and who had been abducted from here against the states from which they had come (through the press, radio, etc.). I made this quite clear in my speech in 1932 in the Chamber of Deputies and on behalf of 06753