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

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-39 - 48 times as I had done, warned of the issue of weapons to the civilian population. On the day after this meeting, manufacturer Janiček told me that the issue had really been stopped (but only after/interference) and that it might also have been returned to part of the weapons and explosives issued. .2 Benesch's resignation from the presidential office. It was, I think, 5 October 1938 when I, as well as it. .the weeks before, came to the offices of President Benesch on the Birg at about 9 a.m. to a meeting with the Nibrigon representatives of the(üble n/Polite parties and the former=maligen political government committee. It should be reported to us on the course of the negotiations of the Commission, which met these days in Berlin and established the Greeks in the Sudeten and Czechosovakei. Present were: the former ministers Dr. Hodža, Bechýnge Dr, Šrámek, Dr. Cerný and Dr. Franke, Ježek and Mlčoch, as well as the president of the Social Democrats Hampl, the chairman of the Beran agricultural party, for the popularists Dr. Klapka and for the National Democrats Dr. Hodáč. Furthermore, the then Prime Minister General Syrovy, the Chief of Staff Kr ejčí were present. Even before the beginning of the meeting, I was called to a secondary chancellery, where there were some officers and officials who had just returned from Berlin. I was called out by the deputy chief of staff General Husarek, who told me that he had returned from Berlin, where he had participated in the negotiations of the so-called delimitation commission in the representation of our army. He told me the situation was very unfavourable for us in Berlin. He complained that the delegates of France and England in this Commission (the Berlin envoys of these states) had no interest in our affairs. If the Czechs demand anything from them, they clearly acknowledge that they are harassing and that they do not want or can do anything. They are aware of the guilt towards us, said Husarek, but still leave us completely in Riy. Most of all, however, it hurts us, says