English Translation

Copy. 11.I. 1941. 3 On my visits to Your Excellency on the 2nd. In March 1940, I had the opportunity to make a request regarding the action which was then envisaged by your office towards the members of the former Czechoslovak legions, and I was very grateful to Your Excellency at the time for the fact that, in fact, the prepared harsh measures against the former legionnaires were taken away, and saw that there was no difference between the Czech peoples from the point of view whether they were legionaries or not, a just decision on your part, which was also received most gratefully in the whole Czech public sphere. All the more surprising to me is that after the end of almost a whole year, an editorial was published in the newspaper "The New Day" ( January 9) in which the sharpest measures against the legionaries, which are supposed to lead to their complete elimination from public life, are indicated. This article acquires a particular political significance by quoting and literally adopting statements by Mr K.H. Frank, Secretary of State. I cannot, therefore, fail to address your Excellency in this matter, because the content of the above-mentioned article, even with regard to the political authority enjoyed by the Secretary of State, has, in the broadest possible Czech public sphere, produced a very extraordinary arousal, which I have many evidence of. I ask Your Excellency, first of all, to state the question.