STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393 Page 101 · 101 of 128
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393
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28 November 1939 NE. Strictly confidential On its own responsibility to destroy immediately. English radio messages. 98 channels: Daventry Time: 20.45-21.00 Language: Czech Reception: very disturbed. Ribbentrop received a new rejection from Stalin. The German Foreign Minister had requested that the Czech envoy in Moscow be sent to evict the embassy building and that he be deprived of his privileges. However, Zdenek Fierlinger and other officials of the embassy were invited to a feast yesterday by Molotov. The German ambassador also attended the event. Today, the Hournalist Villard, who recently returned from a trip through Czechoslovakia, describes his impressions in the Daily Telegraph. Villard writes that he had been invited by a high German personality. He does not doubt that the invitation had been given in the conviction that there was really peace in Prague. He had, however, decided to undertake the trip on 28 October. Villard described that he had seen large numbers of Henschen in Prague, which had been decorated with badges in the national parbs. The members of the SS and SA had acted provocatively from the beginning. Villard then describes the new methods used to bring about injuries.He had shot at the walkers, from where the bullets had bounced into the crowd. Thus, he regretted that it had been a tragic accident. Villard analyses the German politics in the 6th S-R. and explains that it is based on the method of brutal use of violence. However, the Germans in Czechoslovakia would not be able to do so as they did at the time of the war in Belgium, where they had only provoked hatred and Kxxkk bitterness. The Germans obviously did not make it sufficiently clear that they had done so with the Czechs with the yoayabu. Neurath had no tendency for cruelty on his own, which is why Hermann Frank was admitted to him. Villard continued that it could not take miracles to keep Hácha in his country seat. Although the Prague Marionet ten government had nothing to say itself, it would sometimes go so far as to demand that even she refuse to do so. Many observers in Prague believe that the Hécha government will soon disappear completely. Pressé and theatre are under the strictest censorship. From the concert halls everything is banished, which reminds of the national life of the Czechs. From this background, the dances of Dvorak should not be played either. Even on the corridors of the school buildings, the eyewart shirts stood and reminded the teachers that they were under supervision. However, the main objective of the German measures was to strengthen control over the heavy industry.All Jewish directors had been removed and had by no means taken the place of Czechs son+ dern Peuche. The Reichsprotektor also referred to the activities of the Czech courts and could confirm or postpone their judgments.Villard then showed the cruelty,