STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 578, sig. 109-4325

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6/7.8.39 Nr 1067 Date: "Pariser Tageblatt" M FEEE Remarks: 6./7. VIII. 1939 - No. 1067 The reader strike of the Czechs From P r a g is written to us: that the directorial offices of the large-scale Fried statistics from the newspaper houses cleaned. The Bohemian Moravian "protectorate" most prominent personalities who have directed the direction of a sharp decline of the field. are Stransky and unemployment in the historical country Salda. Jaroslav Sransky, the owner of them. But for an economic. the "Lidové Noviny", deputy. They also admit catastrophic Z.u- university professor and trust conditions: Only 65 percent of the man Beneschs, emigrated to Poland. Setzer, who until March employs wa- Jaroslav Salda, the influential superior, is in work. 3000 newspapers director of the Melantrich group, is present and magazines have stopped their appearance a few days from the administration. The editions of the daily newspaper divorced. "Melantrich", who by far have fallen to half and still the largest newspaper publisher of the Czechoslofer. wakei, was the personal work of this unusually capable self-mademan. Europe's most loyal newspaper reader is a professional craftsman, he was on strike after World War II administrator of the "Ces-reading and educational hun- ké Slovo". The Czechs, however, were readers of the finally six daily newspapers. par excellence. Especially newspaper readers. a whole series of weekly papers, re- A people, who lived in the centre of the eu- vuen and scientific contemporary events, could be published. As in the Reich and in Austria, to drink coffee. The Prague Kaf- also leads the fairy houses in Czechoslovakia, even more than the Viennese ones, to the constant flight of readers to the reading rooms. The circulation numbers of newspapers and publishers. According to the newspapers were Melantrich" and Novina", the Ver- high. Prague's morning leaves. which lay to the former agrarians, were not cheap. sold 100,000 over a merger. Independent copies remain. Sunday editions that of larger enterprises first two and three times. The only ones to approve the tempo publishing with the Bou- Evening Zaben were even more levardblätter Stribrnys and the old ones read. The most common. the .Vecer. ..Narodni Politika". the already by ni Ceské Slovo". came to a half their black-yellow tradition to a million edition. With all in all they emphasized "activism" among the new ben million Czechs! All this, by the way, has been heard by the "Same scarf" on March 15th. From today to tomorrow. The tung" already to the present extent ". Protectors" have managed to do it. enough to allow the Czechs to quickly read the Czech press: the "protective" "nazify". But they couldn't score" are not satisfied yet. They prevent that with the same editors were recently hit this press losing its buyers. by the "Reichsprotector energetically strike the Czech readers. warns because they "do not work positively enough to build up", and they had to vow this reader's strike. and by no means "improvement". If they keep this drastic prohibition of the vows, the Czech "protectors", the 3000 sheets of ser strike, have gained new dimensions, which so far seem to have ceased to exist. Apart from G. J.