STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2533, sig. 109-12/180

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t1 -7 - The Japanese, as patriotic people, must have full instinct for the Czech patriots. A people who were unscathed, cannot do without this independence. A real state of law does not exist for the time being in the Protectorate. It is in a transitional state. Ninisterialrat Schmoranz: He limited himself to the factual (and quite correct) answer of various questions which Vir submitted to him and which disproved a whole series of claims which had appeared in the "Tines" as wrong. On the other hand, Mr Schmorenz refused to give any personal view Ausdrank 'su. Irmer again vieg;e? Kitano had the impression that Schmoranz did not want to speak and to suggest through his silence that there was a lot to be said of himself. Kitano was not satisfied with the result of this conversation. Schoranz had ulterior motives, he said. inisterorüsident Generel Eliéš: A very polite but purely formal reception. After the audience, General Eliáß handed over to the Japanese journalist a text of an interview (ad informandwu) which he recently granted to a German-American writer. Kitano was visibly divulged from the content, since he also returned to this skin only for a historical