English Translation

13 -3 Colonel Beck received Kitano in one hour's audience. Beek was a great worker and very clever, too clever. The conversation had a general character. Delicate probles were ignored. Beck said that 80% of Velt's politicians believed in the inescapability of the war. The other 20% hoped that a conference would come to an end. He, Beek, had no preconceived opinion. It was practically impossible to make a political prognosis. He only followed the development of things. Warsaw made aif itano a bad impression. Great poverty abuses. Tisch no business relations exist at all, Japen had nevertheless established a consulate in Lviv. ¿a8e8 2.) Prague impressions and conversations of Mr Kitano. Kitano had expected to find Preg in trouble, lack of food, Czechs, the German soldiers on the street, everywhere military with planted bayonet, tanks in the streets, etc. On the first day Kitano could not repeat often enough that he had convinced himself how things were so different. He had read in his question d d d t d t e o e, as a starting point for having concrete lateral in this way, which should allow him to refute news circulating in Japan, from English sources, and to blustrate English propaganda. Mr Kitano felt that he had gained a full understanding of the general situation in the Frotektorat, and in particular that he fully understood the argument that