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

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34a - 18 - all the costs of the court , reclaimed in the newspapers , easy request etc. , - continued however the attacks . At this time appeared at great surprise in secretate of the agricultural party a man , who told that he had been hired to deliver the communist articles against Nesh . This man claimed (and later b was confirmed) that he had received 2,000 Kč for this work monthly -- from the board of the press section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hájek. Beran personally made a complaint about this with Dr. Benesch. The Foreign Minister replied, of course, he did not know anything about this, he would investigate the law and create order. Of course, nothing happened. After Švehla's death, the leader of the People's Party 0 Monsignor Dr. Šramek fully supports Dr. Benesch's policy, which means that Dr. Benesch wins the entire People' s Party for himself.giwärm. Nevertheless, he had not yet won a majority in a presidential election in parliament, as the election victory of the he NSDAP/German/social democrats had pushed back to 1/3, but also the Communists ind the other German parties of the Czechoslokei. In this situation, the Soviet People's Party Hlinka is now becoming the decisive factor in a new presidential election in Czechoslovakia. hiIt becomes a little bit of a balance in a possible presidential election. HlinkA was a fanciful opponent. Benesch. That's why Dr. Benesh won Dr. Tiso for himself. I don't know on which lines and why this is so. Dr. Benesch then conducted a series of confidential consultations with Dr. Tiso without knowledge Hlinka. Hlinkas complained about this to me very often. However, all this was still not enough H for the attainment of the majority. Therefore, Dr. Tiso got in touch with the papal Kämerer Dr. Rückl, who announced that the Vatican had spoken out for an election of Benesch. Hlinka was then led to Benesch. "After lengthy discussions, the agreement was reached that the Slovak People's Papetei would stand for the election of Dr. Benesch as president. HlinkA made the statement that he had to give his assurance that the election would be Prof. 06749 va