English Translation

W - 41 - 3. J u g o s l a w i n The Czechs are particularly strongly represented in Yugoslavia, where a strong Czech minority after the 1939 event was substantially strengthened by the Czech emigration. In Yugoslavia there are supposed to be some 3500o resident Czechs, whose largest part lives in Belgrade and Croatia. The Czech national consciousness is grouped in the "Czechoslovak Association for the Kingdom of J u g o s l a w i n". This organisation, officially cultural in character, is headed by the university professor Dr. Sm e_tá n k a (Czech Republic with a Jugosl nationality) in Agram and is also based there. Safe news showed that Smetanka is a leading figure in the illegal activity of the Czechs in Yugoslavia. Czech emigration to Yugoslavia, in contrast to the groups which are hostile to the rich in Yugoslavia, is mostly a part of the panslavist and leftist circles. The links after the Protectorate are mainly with local Marxists and Benesh followers. The majority of the anti-Soviet countries in Yugoslavia are currently beginning to turn their hopes away from the Western powers and to reorientate them to the Soviet Union. According to previous knowledge, the agrarian and legal circles of the "Czech secret organization" in Yugoslavia have only one liaison in Dr. Josef R u d i n s k y , Belgrade, Pašićeva 7, who maintains contact with the Benesch and left circles there and cooperates with the group Dr. K a h a n e k - Dr. B e r t.l in B u k a r e st. In addition, a certain Colonel Hübl is to be active in Belgrade. The leadership of Czech emigration has the former tsch. Envoy in Belgrade, Dr. Jaroslaw Lí pa and next to him the former. Editor of the "České Slovo" , J í š e. Between L í p a and J ís e seem to have reached a consensus--