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52 Abtetlung Iv - Kulturpolitik Rundfunk- und Helldienst Excerpt from the reports of 25 October 1941. Lo_n_d_o_n(Czech)_- l8,3o o'clock. Speech of the president of the Czecho-Slovak _Repulblik Dr. Eduard B e nae s e h on the occasion of the anniversary of the founding of the state on 28 October: "Ture fellow citizens of Czechoslovakia! Soon the fourth anniversary of that unfortunate agreement of Munich is approaching. For us this day is a day of mourning. But we are in the heart of all events with faith and courage. You know what the whole world thinks of the new terror in the ČsR. I want to tell you what these terrorist measures mean - politically speaking. I always tell the truth, I don't give myself any illusions. Already on September 28th I told you: Germany is waging a total war, where total war means war of robbery and murder. The war is waged to the point of exhaustion on all possible fronts, and therefore Germany must necessarily fall. The Germans told you about the great victories in the past and in the previous years, and now they are telling you again about the victories in East. I have foreseen everything. In the year 39 I expected the quick fall of Poland. In a conversation with Churchill I said already then that Poland will be able to hold on for a maximum of 6 weeks. When I then stayed in Paris and went from there to London, I predicted the fall of France with just as much certainty, and when the situation in the Balkans began to worsen, I warned you of rapid German victories. Even then, I knew that a new war in the East would soon come. And also with regard to the Eastern Campaign, I predicted you great successes of Germany. You continue to think, as the Germans have claimed after the fall of France, that now England will fall, and that Roosevelt will help. And I already at that time emphasized the inexhaustible reserves of Great Britain and America in the air, on water and on land. I saw - 2 - IV.P.-13. 1.