STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1747, sig. 109-4/1502 (damaged)

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0 - 16- Now you can hear Pavel S v a t f : The German Fropaganda in the Prague press and on the Prague radio can not do enough to repeatedly point out the speech of Mr Moravee, which this former representative of the Czech people held in Venice, We have in this connection to explain that Moravec at first not at all as the representative of Czech. People can be considered, and secondly, that his remarks in Venice, too, were by no means made at an international forum, because Venice can be called "enauso" - little the claim to be considered free as, for example, Prague. And out of this round, a speech given in Venice should have no greater significance than all the lying and ver- leu derian speeches that have been held by Mr Moravec in Prague up to now, Moravek had in his speech in Venice above all stated that Pres, Benesch duech, wrote to Hácha in November l938 acknowledged his loyalty and the loyalty of the ruling Regim and confirmed kábë, To this it would be noted that it is well true that of Benesch one. It is not necessary to point out that we also have to regard the resignation of Dr. Benesch as just as inequitable as anything that has been happening since September l938 in the area of the tschsl. It was not possible for the Federal Republic of Germany to do so because all this could be done only by force and threat from Berlin, so if Mr Moravec wanted to present the situation as if it had been Hécha himself who had delivered the Republic of Hitler, we must vigorously oppose such a ridiculous accusation. The whole world webed that Hächa only under the greatest possible coercion in Berlin gave his signature and even that only in timremxdanxburtsekan the best, to tell his people the hardest, as had been promised to him by the Germans. We in Londor have witnesses who were present at the act carried out in Berlin and who can at any time renew their testimony on this process. It would therefore be better for the Göbbles propaganda to remain silent in its own interest about this chapter of German politics. If Mr. Moravec calls Mácha a traitor, this is only a new proof that, despite all the mischief, the Germans did not manage to solve the problem in the same way as they had imagined... (disturbation)... The only thing that was true of Mr Moravec's remarks in Venice was the fact that the Benesh had actually sent a letter to Hächa. Benesch had always only the advantage of the Czech people in mind, he did not want to involve it in a conflict when the time of fighting had not yet come. For this reason, he did not speak a word to his defence, neither in his homeland nor in his country, only in order not to stand in the way of his people's pall by his persps. He had at that time given the German promises nor faith g, he wanted to know nothing else but his people, so that it could achieve its goal by this unity at the moment of decision.