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

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K97 - 4 - Proof of his and the British people's desire to spare the world the misery of a second world war. The ovations which were prepared for him in Germany were also proof of the desire for peace of the German people and of the conviction that the difficulties would be settled by negotiations. His action was strongly criticized here in England at that time. However, no one could doubt his determination to maintain peace. However, when it was clear that Hitler wanted the war, Chamberlain took on the task of leading England against the brutal violence with all his energy. He also ruthlessly later supported the new Premier Churchill. - He will go down in history as the man who was the first to discover the criminal spirit of Nazism. He exposed Hitler, so that he was morally condemned by the whole world at the beginning of the war. Chamberlain has thus gained a significant advantage if he has not yet shown himself in the Aigenblich. - Churchill thought in his speech yesterday Chamberlain with words of warmest sympathy. Attlee expressed his deepest sympathy and explained: Most impressed me with this man's great sense of duty. He was prime minister in an extremely difficult time and although we did not always agree with his policy, we had no doubt that he devoted all his strength, energy, to what he thought was right! Laval returned from Paris to Vichy. He had an interview with Hermann Göring in Paris! The Germans lost yesterday after 3 machines, in days 5 were shot down. No British loss. The warship Winchester was slightly damaged against air attack. The British submarine H 49 is overdue and is therefore regarded as lost. Officially it is reported: The reports about an alleged attack British naval forces on a city in French Equatorial Africa are denied. It is also untrue that British forces were involved in a landing attempt at Libreville. Aue Vuchy is reported that De Gaulle landed there with fleet units. The British war fleet only participated in an action when the French submarine " Pontsellet? tried to attack a British warship without warning, Das franz. U-boat was forced to appear by countermeasures and then sunk by its own crew. The crew could be rescued. Yesterday's attack on Munich was the worst since the beginning of the war. # Not even Berlin was ever so fiercely attacked. An official British communiqué, by Brit. Page published compilation of the airstrikes undertaken in the last 1 4 months of the war shows that 26l in Germany, 233 in the occupied territories and l7 in Jtalien were bombed. Berlin was attacked 26 times, Hamm 80, Hamburg 53, Bremen 42, Kiel 28, Emden 25, Cologne 39, Soest 32, Osnabrück 31, Essen 23, Mannheim 20, Gelsenkirchen 30, Hanover 29, Magdeburg 17, Ostend 45, Vlissingen 48, Calais 39 times. - 5 -