English Translation

At the Czech-Slovak border, the Czech border guards were replaced by German guards. All traffic should be prohibited. Only persons who have a special permit may cross the Czech and Slovak border. Slovak travellers who want to go to Prague must travel via Vienna." English Radio News 20.ll.39: Daventry, 14.45 h: "According to the latest reports, 120 Czech students have been executed in Prague by the Gestapo. Many have been deported to various concentration camps in Germany. Thus, the Nazis take revenge for the demonstrations. Last Friday, troops were rushed to Prague. The situation is also characterised by the fact that since September the year before, 30 bodies of SS people have been pulled out of Moldova. To the events in Czechoslovakia today, the "Times" state that the entire responsibility for the events of recent times falls to the brutal local German administration. Today's conditions again showed that the Germans did not understand how to direct foreign peoples. In an article entitled "The Iron Hand in Prague", the "Times" today call the Secretary of State K.H.Frank a great-speaker of violence. The Kladno case, which leads his present speech in Böhmich-Budweis and the 28 October of the year, is particularly characteristic of this. Many of those who were guilty of the murder of Kladno had died in prisons or had become insane. He had a part in all the events. His appearance at the time was also significant with the riding whip in his hand on Karlsplatz in Prague. K.H.Frank has come up politically through National Socialism. He was formerly a bookseller in Karlsbad, where he went bankrupt. Whether his brutal violent character he was known. In September Hitler distinguished him, in order to deny the rumors spread about him. His activity in Prague represents the continuation of the politics that at that time prevented a balance between Czechs and Germans. The article in the "Times" further states that the promises of administrative and cultural autonomy given by Hitler at the time by the Hacha were hardly anything left for the Czechs. Freiherr von Neurath would be an old cynical gentleman who would rather play chess at the castle than take serious care of the fulfilment of his assurance that he would work for a good coexistence of the two peoples. One is now trying in Prague to persuade Berlin to a settlement of the Czechs from Bohemia and Moravia."