THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1746, sig. 109-4/1501

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Division IV Strictly confidential! Radio group Only for the personal radio and light service. Use of service! on/Ira jn own responsibility to destroy! Test No. ( § 353 c of the RSTGB ). B e r i c h t e of 9 and lo November 1994o. Lo n do n - English. 78/ traac r d England to its allies: Despite the blows that England has suffered and despite the heavy Iasts that we have to bear in the midst of many deadly threats, we have not deviated from our obligations against the enslaved countries of Europe or against the countries that are still in battle with us. Since we were left alone in this world struggle, we have stood up for all the countries for which we and with which we have drawn the sword, and have given this matter an ever clearer meaning. All these countries, starting with Austria, the CSR, Poland ... The greatest of them, France and, lastly, Greece, must be freed, for all these countries we will work and fight and for all those countries our victory will mean freedom. Today, our thoughts are with full sympathy and admiration in a small and heroic country. I mean the brave Greek people and their armed forces, who are now so bravely defending their home ground. I send this people our solemn promise that, despite our own efforts and concerns, we will do everything in our power to help these people. We will strike the wretched assailant with increasing strength, from now until the day when the criminal and traitor, branded Mussolini and dishonoring the name of the Italian people, will receive his full and due punishment. Our friends know that they can count on us and our enemies have understood that they have to reckon with the British resistance for an indefinite period of time and in an ever increasing extent, But from the survival of the present struggle to a permanent victory there will still be a long difficult way to go and on our march on this way we will give the world the endurance of the British. In the name of our government and the population, I offer Roosevelt our profound congratulations on his re-election. I congratulate the great American statesman, who has never let us down and who, in this crisis, as a result of this crisis in particular, has expressed America's confidence in an unprecedented manner, in which he was commissioned for the third time to lead his powerful people. The aid that the United States has promised us is immediately being given the form of a large-scale division of American production, which has now been deployed in all American factories with the greatest strength. The Jnteresse of the American people in our successful resistance and final victory has been made known by all the parties of America. But here in England no one is left in doubt that, beyond this strong material help and community of youths, there is a strong wave of passionate compassion and friendship that warms our hearts and strengthens our resolve.