STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 2024, sig. 109-7/31 Page 51 · 51 of 70
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2024, sig. 109-7/31
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- 47 - Ing. Ferdo K ö 1 1 e r, resident Agram, Baskovićova ulica 7 took part in the campaign against the closure of Czech universities in the Protectorate on 25 November l939. The former head of the Czech opera in Brno, Milan S a c h s, is active in Agram in the anti-rich sense. The official of the "First Croatian Sparkassa" in A Gram, Drag. S k o r n j a k studied in Prague, is irreconcilably German= hostile and cooperates with Professor Smetánka. In Agram appeared the Czech illegal emigrant magazine " Alarm ", which is produced in the printing house of the newspaper " Nova rjeć " Wenceslas= laus V i l d e r. From here there were close relations with the Paris newspaper "Československý boj". In connection with this newspaper it is known that the "Lidové Noviny" are carried out in large numbers from the Protectorate to Yugoslavia=. In the "Lidové noviny", messages are to be given to the Czech emigration abroad in inconspicuous form at certain places printed in italics. The editor K l u s á č e k is called as well-wrapped. The head of the "Bata-Filiale" in Agram, H o l z m a n n is also anti-German. The strong financial and moral support that the Czech emigration by the Yugoslav authorities in Yugoslavia itself experiences is also granted to it in various other states by the diplomatic representations of Yugoslavia there. Various Yugoslav embassies and consulates appear heavily burdened by the support of Czech anti-rich elements and efforts. Officials of the Yugoslav Consulate in Prague mediated mail between members of the Czech Legion in France and relatives in the Protectorate. The Yugoslav embassy in Budapest is in courier connection with Dr. S m e t á n k a and cooperates with Czech emigration and the French embassy in Budapest. The Yugoslav Consulate General in Istanbul was involved in the transport of Czech refugees to the territory of the Western States. It was also occasionally observed that the local chancellor Vuko Z a m b e l i é such transports was personally cared for. - 48 -