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

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- 17 - S7 at this popular socialist enterprise). The paper began to systematically attack the agrarian party and its leaders. For months in this paper directly perfidious attacks appeared daily. Author and initiator of almost all of these attacks was the nephew of the MinisteroDr. Benesch, the political editor and later chief editor of the "Večerni čeké slovo" Dr. Georg Benesch. A socialist writer was assigned to the xxdemxkuftragxawxegexanät to snoop around and collect material against the deputy and minister Staněk and to publish it in the popular socialist newspapers. Other editors ao had the order to gather the place of birth in the narrower home town of 2344 of the chief editor of the "Venkov" of Senator Vranfk material against him. Vraný openly denounced in the press as the author and initiator of all this beginning the minister Dr. Benesch and explained he would not be right with the sent out paid mercenaries, but only with Dr. Benesch. Minister Benesch complained about Vranýg's actions against the agrarian members of the government and said that he could not do anything about what the party pressexkxeihe (inxetekexer obueh he was deputy leader and decisive factor of the party) and what his nephew wrote. But the attacks dex vòn of the popular socialist press stopped. A short time later, the communist press began a systematic campaign of attack against the chairman of the agricultural party R. Beran. Communist deputies attacked Beran at meetings and in parliament and -S the press seceded with éiner real "hatz".Hundreds of attacks and articles published the communitarian press against Beran . From this much took over the social democratic and popular socialist party. Beran NESMT defended himself in the agricultural press and passed through the advo- ktenkanzlei Dr. Slabý in Prague around loo Klagenx honorary complaints. The Kummunists tried in all possible ways to postpone the trial of the lawsuits by various motions. Finally they paid