STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391

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Vomteapa! 12 Concentration of the foreign radio attack on the Protectorate and Slovakia. In recent days the foreign broadcasting brought tendentious and lies about the protectorate and the Slovakia. Jan Masaryk's speech on the London channel in Czech, in which he urged the Czech and Slo-Wak people to endure until the Wéedervereinigung of both peoples will be carried out in the new CSR , for which our friends will help and assist us. The speech concluded with the words: "Goodbye in Prague!" But almost no attention was paid to this speech by the foreign broadcasters. A repetition of it did not take place. Since yesterday, the concentration of foreign broadcasting propaganda seems to be increasingly used in Czech language with Beneseh's rally at the London station from 20:45 to 21:00 (Eendon-National), as demonstrated by the following news after Benesch's speech: Benesch rally: ...... Then he announced that his Excellency Dr. Eduard Benesch would speak. Benesch explained (meaning): "Expensive Czechs and Slovaks, it is the time when actions speak. Barbarism in Czechoslovakia, in Poland and even in Germany is approaching its end. We are ready and determined to fight. Today we no longer give way to oppression. The peoples of the whole world are against barbarism. England and France will help now. Organize the resistance therefore. Stop! In every company, in every city a determined struggle must be waged from now on against the oppressors. You must be determined to make every sacrifice and must not shy away from blood sacrifices. Now the open fight against German violence begins, until the enemy is hit on the head.From this day on, a constant struggle is being waged with the enemy who has desecrated our Hradshin."The Ensager then said: "Thank you, Your Excellency!" Washington Havas. An official of the State Department stated that the Polish envoy will continue to represent Poland in the United States, despite the change in the Polish situation through the war. His position will be the same as that of Hurban, who remained in the function of Minister of Czechoslovakia.