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

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34a -1 - Envoy in Paris and Pergler in Tokyo. Both, especially Dr. Osusky, were described in the people as the possible and probable successors of Dr. Benesch in the office of Foreign Minister. The relationship between Dr. Benesch and them was particularly good and vice versa. There were very often differences between them. Osusky's conflicts with Benesch had more private character. On the other hand, the striites between Benesch and Dr. Pergler vok were carried away by the whole public. There was an open struggle. It was not necessary to approach them more closely, since they are generally known. Hundreds of newspaper articles and brochures were written here, and a series of speeches and meetings were held in parliament. There was a great speeding up in the whole Czech public when the Benesch press (the press he Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the socialist press) declared that Dr. Perger was not a Czechoslovak citizen. The next employee Masaryks, the co-founder of Czechoslovakia and the long-standing ts<hechos Slovak envoy tn, was stamped as a foreigner. Dr. Benesch, as Foreign Minister Dr. Pergler, then removed from the office of an envoys. And since Dr.Pergler resisted it, C threw the entire "Burgpresse" on him. The whole people, but also the whole world, could not understand this approach. esllInstinctively, the people felt that Dr. Pergler was wrong. The American envoy remarked to one · our envoys ironically:"We Americans did not know that we had two American emissaries in Tåkio at once, i.e. ours and beyond Dr. perg- tler. You Czechs kantxwmsxwirkx really loves us". Dr. Pergler, however, did not benefit from his feud. The legal scholars explained that according to the letters of the . Law Pergler is not Czechoslovak citizen. And so Pergler became "The Man Without Vaeerland" I So he was also called in the people. Dr.Pergler however, he announced his candidacy in parliament. He was elected, obovhl did not support any Polish party. He was chosen by members of various political Bartéten. He became dos very popular in the people. And at this time began at once vaitra 06752 7