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bl Absch r if t . tii bryeng Gehe i m ! /701+0.48. R u n d f u n k (ll C) Schz/Sei. Date 28.0ktober 1942. RW 18616 British Radio Speech of the "President of the Czechoslovak Republic" Dr. Eduard Benesch on the occasion of the National Day of the Republic of Czech Republic on 28.01.1942. The broadcaster Daventry GRT delivered the following speech in Czech on 27.10.42 at 18.39 to 18.59 o'clock by the "President" B e n e s c h: "Expensive fellow citizens! We have again the day of our national holiday, the fifth, since the war for us began. I speak to you this day for the third time from abroad. In peacetime the 28.10. for us a day of joyful memories and quiet reflections on the further work and future. Since l939 he was a day for us sad sorrows and bold hopes. Today he is for us the day of the security of the approaching victory and the expectation of new and near decisive events. We are really approaching the moments when the final fate of Europe will be decided. We are not alone in telling you that, recently President R o o s e v e l t told you and in his last speech in Edinburgh also linston C h u r c h i l l . But it also told you in the last days in its own way first of all, then Gö r i g and G o e b b e l s in their pessimistic and warning speeches of October. All these speeches of the German leaders were carried by the following tone: "The third year of war closes for Germany with great victories and with the occupation of extended territories. Almost the whole European continent is in our hands, but the Soviet enemy is still powerful and extremely dangerous, and last winter we had already found ourselves in Russia on the brink of disaster.