STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 481, sig. 109-4227

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- 4 - 300 mean, just like the whole public, no other information/els only as a member of parliament through the demonstrations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Parliament and through the press.xewiexdtexGesamtex@effemtitehkeitx Minister Dr. Benesch was very suspicious of everyone in these matters and especially of agrarians. The very fact that the Agrarian Party waged a hard and systematic struggle against communism, and that I gave a sharp speech against Communism at the Congress of Agricultural Youth in Prague, especially during the visit to the Benesh in Moscow, forced Dr. Benesch to double distrust me and the entire Agrar Party. I believe that Dr. Benesch as Foreign Minister - the de Pärsidenten of the Republic of T.G. Masaryk excepted - about really important interlocutory negotiations and treaties nobody informed comparatively much still might perhaps know about the treaties and negotiations of Dr. Benesch with the Soviets of the former Foreign Minister Dr. Krofta (though certainly not everything). The visit of the Czechoslovak journalists to Moscow neither I nor my party attached any greater importance to it. We considered this excursion as well as other journalistic excursions abroad. It is certain that the external ministry, which suggested this excursion, was designed to strengthen with us the position of those S movements and parties who were committed to the conclusion of political and military treaties with the SSSR, thereby paving the way for Benesch's visit to Moscow. We delegated the editor/Dr. Maleček to this excursion, who worked in the USA for many years. Editor-in-chief Vraný then carried him to observe everything in detail and objectively and vehemently objectively in the SsSR. But I have to say to Ansostan that we considered outings of journalists abroad as excursions, a conglomerate of banquets, praises and various entertainments in which potentine villages were shown almost everywhere and in all states, I believe that this can also be claimed by the then journey of the Czech Journalists hach of the SsSR. The propaganda and à Mehongatritn 06756