English Translation

Copy of transcript. German Embassy Brussels Brussels, 8 November 1939. Subject: Activities of Czech emigrants in France. Since the beginning of the war, the activities of Czech immigrants in France have been relatively unnoticed and without any major propaganda. The main difference in the treatment of the Czechs and Poles by Western democracies is that the former, despite all their efforts and in contrast to the world war, have not yet been established the formation of a sham government according to the Polish model. in personal conflicts within Czech emigration, partly because England and France do not want to define themselves against the Czechs in the absence of a legal obligation on the issue of the goals of war. Thus, the basis of the relations between the Czech Emigration and the Allied governments has not changed since the beginning of the war. It still consists of the recognition of the former Czech envoys in Paris and London as "official representatives of the Czechoslovak people. In Paris on 2 October, these relations led to the conclusion of a treaty whereby the French government allowed the Czechs to form a Czech army on French soil, which was signed for France by Prime Minister Daladier and for Czech emigration by the former envoy Osusky. The text of this Treaty has not yet appeared in the "Journal Officiel" nor in the press, so that it cannot be determined whether it has already entered into force or not, however, the main activity of the Czechs has so far been limited to the attempt to establish the army organization provided for in the Treaty.