STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 483, sig. 109-4229 (damaged)

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14 - 19 - to that allied group of musks, which did everything possible to keep the empire in its impotence imposed on it in Versailles. a aa C t a German-likeness was accused. However, the accused has always been protected by appropriate denials against the suspicion of the German friends. It is also not right that the defendant has always advocated an agreement between the Czechs and the Germans since l936, and the defendant's attitude to this has been expressed in various official newspaper articles. Thus, on May 18, 1935, the day before the Czech parliamentary elections in the German-written "Prager Presse", which was the official SPa a S e a Co a, was used: - aa a o a date of the Henlein party. We hear their rallies about the positive relationship with this state. But we are miptrau- ical and do not believe in it for the time being; this is meant honestly and that their followers sincerely share this opinion .... The home front (that is the then name of the Su-deten German party) is and remains after the elections a foreign body in the Czechoslovak democracy and without consideration ao Ia ue au aa aa In government because of this its character is not desirable .... But it is necessary that we see in Henlein in the first row a German, but rather the representative of raw and despicable doctrines, which we reject, in whatever language they are put forward." The witness Frank also confirmed that the claims of the Ange- aa s a a d of the government were incorrect. In this regard, the witness referred to an article published in the above-mentioned "Prague Press" on January 20, 1938, in which, under the heading "Svehla line remains", the first statement of the milling board of the agricultural party was reported. In this article it was stated that the factors responsible for the Republican Fartei hal- a oo uo Jop u yodo do u don aa you uo stelle