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

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16.T.1PW. - a - brings economic, financial and political innovations. In this war the USA is not only the friend of England, but also of the allies of all nations, who stand against the attacker in the capie. In his speech on 29.l2. the president declared with the agreement of the American experts that the Aohse will lose the war. The United States believes that the victory of England is vital for the United States, that Britain's victory must be secured not only by its own commitment, but also by the support of the US with all its immeasurable sources. It is clear that the efforts of the German press and the radio to persuade the public that the treaty with Russia is a Śchlag for Churchill is only proof of the great unrest and anger with which the German government has heard the oath of the American President. One is generally convinced that as a result of this development Hitler will be forced to proceed to attack in the near future if he wants his prize. An indication of this is already the activity of German bombers in the Mediterranean. The attempt of the German Air Force to blow up a British train has failed. The Germans have lost a large number of their best planes in this attempt, even if they have managed to damage three British ships. Hitler is forced to act, whether he wants to or not. This means that he has lost the Unitiatives and this as a result of the growing strength of England and the help of the USA. What this change of situation means for the Czechs is clear. It is certain that we still have hard struggles to expect, because the Germans will not give up their plans for the domination of Europe without a hard struggle. Now they know that they do not have a single friend in the world. They hoped that they would deceive Holland, Belgium, Norway and also France, but that hope did not come true either. They hoped they would succeed in convincing the US of its sure victory and that it would be better for the US to be friends of Germany. But this has not gone into fulfillment either, and by the way it is also clear that in Italy the only friends of Germany are Mussolini and some leading men whose fate depends on the fate of their Nazi masters. The ash still suffers from the bestiality of the Nazi tyranny, but they can comfort themselves by having friends around the world, while their tyrants all over the world have only enemies. - Talks with the homeland: The member of the Legionnaire Association, MP Prokop Max, speaks. At home, the Nazis have given power to two men, the Imperial Protector of Neurath and the Secretary of State Frank. We have heard with joy that both gentlemen have difficulties. Both find that the people are not yet ripe for the new German order offered to us by the Grossdeutsche Führer and that the nation does not want to understand what prosperity and happiness this order is supposed to bring to it. Our protectors have often run out of punches in vain in order to find the culprits in this attitude of the people. Finally, in his New Year article, Erank Mr. Frank discovered that the culprits are the legionaries. You already know today what measures the German gentlemen have already taken and what weapons the Gestapo has used against the legionsaries. But after many months of effort to eliminate this legionnaire from the lives of our people, Mr. Frank now discovers that all persecution, all tortures, were in vain. Mr. frank is uneducated and therefore he does not know what this legonnaire is.