STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391 Page 87 · 87 of 122
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 643, sig. 109-4/391
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00l Continuation: 14. - 18. November 1939. 1x.22 The Czech Wohlarbeit abroad and the 15. November 39. Ha Gruppe 14. November $1.c. Havas from London: In a statement on the Daily Mail, President Benesch said, among other things: I'm absolutely sure that we will soon see the Czech Cultural Pofitia affairs made again Slovakia. We make no demand today. At the conclusion of peace, we hope that the definitive limits will be set by a group of experts. Czechoslovakia is ready to contribute to world peace and will accept compromise decisions that relate to all." Benesch then underlined that Czechoslovakia is also in a triegs state with Germany. We will be Germans from Germany down there! Benesch added that the whole Czecho- Slovak nation is in a state of moral conspiration. Havas from London: The Archbishop of York expressed today in Wimbledon the opinion that the Polish and Czech people must be represented as free peoples in the event of a peace conference. Havas from Pressburg: The Germans are currently filming a fictitious and self-evidently victorious attack on the Magiønot line on the former Czech fortress line near Dobrasov. land, remained by the Czech political leaders, digin Prague, a solemn rejection of the action undertaken by Czechs and Slovaks in the Allied countries. They want even more. They want the government of Prague to declare itself in a state of war with France and England and, if necessary, the German army to be a contingent of Czech soldiers, albeit symbolically. As compensation, Germany offers a rectification of the borders in the Sudeten area and the reclassification of the territories of Teschen occupied by Poland in October 1988, and a revision of the Statute of the Protectorate on the basis of full political autonomy.