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M.X7P40 2 The Hungarian Foreign Minister arrived in Belgard today. He was received by the Yugoslav Foreign Minister , the German and the Italian Ambassadors. The US press today commented extensively on Hitler's speech. New York Times: This speech missed badly to a man who sees himself sehon as the master of the auro-European continent. Le was the language of a desperate man who had to dig up old arguments. Washinton Post: It wasn't so long ago that the German people were told that the invasion in England was an inevitable matter, today everything Hitler could say was secure against an invasion. Hitler didn't say a word about the ital. Defeat in Greece and not a word about Russia, although after Molotov's visit Russia was already welcomed as a hopeful new member of the German new order. New York Times: The speech was intended only for domestic use. It should inflate the dissatisfied, unfederated, poorly paid and tired German workers again. Report from the First Session of the Czechoslovak S Spokesman: "We are on a free floor, we are sending from the hall of the Presidential Chancellery. The chairman of the State Council is Rudolf Bechynë, his deputy Monsignor Macháček, next to the seat of President Bensch. The members sit in 2 rows to 26 seats according to age. The oldest is Monsignor Šramek, the youngest of the Karpathorusse Dr. Paul Liberek & . Among the guests we see Mrs. Hanna Bensch and representatives of the army etc.... Bechynč welcomed the present and declared the first meeting convened by decree of the president as opened. By illness the deputy Prime Minister Dr. Milan H o d š a absent. Dr. B e n e s c h reads his botac: "With this statement I open the first session of the csl. State Council, which is a provisional institution of csr. I first, in honor of our dead, who before Munich and in the following events let their life in the struggle for the right our CSR. Let us remember those who left their lives at the time of the invasion of March 1 939 and those who were killed under the eyes of the German government in the aftermath, the tens of thousands who languished today in the prisons and concentration camps of the National Socialists, those who in Slovakia suffered and still suffer a great deal of suffering in their struggle for the GšR and the integrity of our country, as well as our brothers in Carpathorus. Finally, let us remember those who, since the beginning of the war, have been fighting in France and--