English Translation

-27- 4L, that this subsidized press or these personally unsupported journalists do not propagate Czechoslovakia, but Minister Dr. Benesch personally. We pointed out that, although every Paris or Geneva store has a picture or a postcard of Minister Drs. Benesch and his photograph can be found in all possible pages of the world, but one cannot find anything about Czechoslovakia, about : the life of the Czech or Slovak people, about # our culture, about our industry and agriculture. It was not possible that the Czech people, with a thousand-year tradition, were also regarded by some intelligent French, English or Belgians as a people of travelling circus people or gypsies. Even the case is known where the board of Belgian railways asked whether Rjekha belonged to us and a French professor did not know that Agram was not in Czechoslovakia. That is why we have rightly asked for state money to be used to pay an e: real propagand a of Czechoslovakia and not to propagate individuals. 2. Above all, however, we threw Dr. Benesch in person and in the second press, and often in sharp form, the "lake-handler"/(politics or f journalists). Already Švehla had strongly condemned this. The inconvenient activity of the board of the press section of the Hájek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in this direction was well known. All kinds of angles and revolver press found always open doors at Hájek. A number of adventurers and everything capable of various individuals were drifting around Hájek, who used these people for their own purposes. I remember being accused of others, aleh, when he was already president. He said that he was grateful to Hájek for the fact that his wife, who was in the world crisis, had gone abroad "that he was supporting his friends and old ones even if they made mistakes. I objected that it was very nice to support his friends, that one could not do this in this way to the detriment of the state. In vain. Dr. Brenesch declared that he would investigate the matter and aspordailiy nhlasto Aesd