STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393 Page 109 · 109 of 128
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393
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90√ - 6 - New York, Reuter : "The German. Announcement of the execution of Czech students is the main topic of the New York press." London, Reuter : "Ex-President Benesch declared today in London : The terror in Czechoslovakia is unbearable, Since the international situation of Germany is getting worse - and its situation in this war is getting more and more worse- this terror regime is becoming more brutal and terrible. The Czechoslovak nation has never surrendered to terror and will not do so this time either. Concerning the German announcement that nine Czech students were shot, Benesch said: This is murder that brings to us those acts that occurred during the last war in Belgium. This crime will play the same role in Czech public opinion as the murder of Miss Cavell in England. Time will come when these 9 executed students will become Czechoslovak National Saints. It is only a Prague of the time and only a short time before Czechoslovakia will be politically and nationally free again" New York: Havas: "The bloody oppression in Prague has caused a violent rebuke in the United States. Graham Swing, the well-known radio announcer, explained: The execution of nine students under the law in Prague is a strange accompanying music żu the proposal made by v.Papen in Ankara to establish a European community. The American press is outraged. New York Times publishes numerous items about the night of terror experienced by the Nazis' brutalized population of Prague. New York Herald Tribune records with İronie Hitler's war goal of liberating Europe from the English yoke and merely adds that today one can see how ominously grotesque this declaration of the leader is." Paris, Havas: "Presseschau : While Germany is vis-à-vis the greatest internal difficulties, which are partly caused by the external political disappointments, the joint French-English war action is realized not only in military areas, but also diplomatically, economically and financially." Auslands-Hellanmeldungen,l8.1l.39, Nr.3. Berne: Havas gives the DNB announcement about today's execution of three "Czechoslovaks" without comment." Österreichische Grenze, Havas: "The first part of the Depesche is illegible as a result of amospheric disturbances ... "For the sign of mourning, the inhabitants did not leave the houses in the evening. In the empty streets there are only abbeys of the SS, which were especially brought from the Reich to maintain the order.The student demonstrations have served as a pretext for the wildest repression measures, which occurred every day since 28 October. The demonstrations consisted in the fact that the students before the grave of the Unknown Soldier or before the