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Security Service Rfss 56 SD section Prague Number: 8/41 Prague, 15/1.1941. Tagesbericht a (Strictly confidential, only for personal use of the consignee) bragloeinan bedihek) I. Allgemeine Lage und Stimmnung. h14 The various reports show that the discussion of the Legionnaire question in wider circles of the Czechs is already overshadowed by rumours about foreign affairs, especially a US entry into war. A Czech expression reported from the OLB Königgrätz that the Roosevelt speech was the best and most beautiful New Year's gift for all those who long for a defeat of the Axis powers is characteristic. In Legio- närskreisen itself, the dismay usually culminates in economic concerns for the case of premature fension. OLB Olmütz reports that the Czech workers are quite indifferent to the dispute over the Legionnaire's question. In the OLB Pilsen it was observed that the Czech population is nowhere in the public sense, as if the legislative question were the future position of the Czech people in the Great German Reich; the German rule over the Czechs was generally regarded as an episcde, which will soon be over. II._Individual processes. Czech fascists in the OLB Königgrätz received a circular letter from the "National Fascist Community", Central Prague, in which they were instructed by literal reference to the Arti-kol deeHarrn Reichsprotektrs in December edition of the magazine "Böhmen und Mähren", scfort aus der NG -2-