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

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- 4 - 289 SENDER LONDON N/ d e u t s c h/: The weather in the canal is very suitable for an invasion. No single cloud covered the view today. The lake was premature. Lecture of a certain Warren Bartelet /?/: "Hitler and Mussolini have once again advised themselves how to force a more white people under the yoke. The Duce entered the war only because he thought that everything was ready already Ziemličh. Italy is sired by the two previous arias, cut off from every raw material supply, his people was not particularly enthusiastic, especially not by an arieg on the German side. But when France collapsed, the Duce Hitler's assertions believed that England would soon be over, too. We here in England are waiting with confidence for the German invasion. But the German Air Force has already had too great a failure. It has not succeeded.... etc... Invasion policy has therefore become a very dangerous beginning to which Ítalia had to be brought in to provide assistance. Mussolini must now be as courageous as a man who has given money to a fraud - undertaking a pusher and shooting at more and more sums in the ever-decreasing hope of regaining his original capi- tal, Somehow and somewhere Hitler must win in order to compensate for his failure against England, so something must be done in the Mediterranean and there the Italians must act, because the Spaniards have no desire to participate. The Spanish people are impoverished and dissatisfied, and the Spanish government seems dangerous to give arms to this people, and action in the Mediterranean will therefore have to be supported by Italy. The Italians proceed very slowly and cautiously and show quite clearly that they will only get Hitler out of the fire if they are sure that he will send them sufficient help. Perhaps they will succeed in getting something further into Egypt with German reinforcements. However, the road through the desert is constantly threatened by our fleet etc. It is far from me to underestimate the Italians as enemies, they are tough and can be brave, but in Egypt they will find an opponent who fights for his existence. The Egyptians now realize that they can only preserve their precious national existence through a British victory. All of this will have dispelled Mussolini Hitler during the conversation and told him that Hitler did not keep his word. Hitler, on the other hand, will have made Mussolina understand that the rescue of the two dictators now depends on Italy. The meeting at the Brenner could hardly have been a pure celebration of love. Linsley Fraser with a lecture on the Ehglian trade unions: "...the labor unions know that they would lose their predilection under Nazi rule and are therefore determined, etc... the leaders of the trade unions now hold key positions in the British government. The trade union congress represents the interests of the workers against the so-called Plutocrats... Soldiers and officers are members of the same British workers' union... A Russian newspaper wrote about this in detail and Goebbels will hardly want to claim that one is biased against England in Russia. - 5 -