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

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bob - 10 - Franz, Sender, Straasburg: France and England took arms after Hitler attacked Poland without any reason, after which he had done the same with Austria and Czechoslovakia. The President of the French Repuhlik, Lebrun, took the opportunity to make the following statement: "France has resorted to arms to put an end to the activities of violence and arbitrariness which for two years has already enslaved three countries, breaking the most solemn promises. A lasting peace can only be created if the injustice is remedied and the respect for the freedom of all peoples comes to their right. Europe can be liberated from the anguish and unrest only if new attacks on the people's freedom are excluded. Of course, in Germany this cannot be said. There it is said that the evil enemy has plans of conquest, by lies however the defeat of Hitler is not endured, his fate is sealed. " 7.Tovenber: Hell-Havas from Amsterdamt "Het Volk": In the Pro+ectoret Bohemia and Moravia new situation, solution difficult to foresee. This as a result of the demonstrations of the 28th century October, occasionally which there were a number of dead and wounded. Number of Gestapo officials thrown in the pluses. Incidents have far-reaching political consequences. Several hundred arrests taken away, Himmler personally in Pro- tectorate capital. He made heavy accusations to heads of the Gestapo, SS and SA not to have avoided shootings; it would have been in Interesse dee Reich to give abroad the Eindruek that in Bohemia and Moravia there is complete peace. As a result of the visit by Himmler, Baron v.Neurath visited President Hácha in order to inform him of conditions that could be set free under false manifestos. It was a rally of loyalty by the people concerned, and to blur the bad impression caused during October 28th, Reichsprotektor proposed the following regulations: 1. Revision of the borders in favour of the Czechs on the Polish, Austrian and Bavarian borders. 2. Conversion of the protectorate into a republic dependent on Berlin. 3. Loyali-