English Translation

- 5 - 31 po d d s everywhere press the journalists in hand and that in this case also delivered our foreign ministry, fills the newspaper columns for a number of weeks with a clear, predetermined tendency. I repeat, therefore, that, in my opinion, this trip was only intended to prepare the ground for the visit of Benezh to Moscow and for the conclusion of contracts between the 4th Czechoslovak Republic and SssR. The majority of journalists who travelled abroad were in a close friendship with the foreign ministry. A number of journalists from the socialist press (people's socialists and social democrats) made the bulk of the excursions and also on this trip to Moscow. The other journalists were direct employees of the Foreign Ministry i.e. Officials and Rxd editors of the press section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Prague Press"fOrbis etc.) From bourgeois circles only two journalists were involved, Dr. Mareček and, I believe, a editor of the "Lidové Listy". Many journalists (also the bourgeois press) which often wrote against the foreign policy of Dr. Benesch, were won by the Foreign Ministry by the fact that they received from the d 11 for study breaks/ilaeh summer holidays (but also otherwise), or at all support for a longer stay abroad. I remember that after the end of the Moscow jounnalist trip I was one of the participants (I think it was Dr. Mareček) about this excursion. The Czech journalists were most often told about the tremendous power of the Soviet industry in the construction process, the fabulous preparation of the equipment of the soviet army and the "excellent" results of the Pünfjahr plan. They had been shown the management of some sample colchose and cofcose, and also a number of large factories and electricity plants, and had predicted to them the enormous extent to which the agricultural and industrial production of the SSSR would increase. I do not know exactly, but I believe that the journalists