STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 645, sig. 109-4/393

Page 13

English Translation

Division IV - Radio Strictly confidential! Broadcasting and Helldienet Only for personal service use! To be destroyed on your own responsibility! Test. No. 292/II/421 (353 c RSTGB). Reports of 21 October 1942. L o n d o n - (Czech) - l8.30 h. The news section was held only in a short form because of the following speech, which claimed most of the time available. Eastern front: On the Stalingrad front rain casts and muddy roads. Around the Caucasus there is meter-high snow. In Stalingrad a row became fine. In the north-west of the city, the Russians entered the German territories at some points. The war at sea: The British Admiralty admits that two new battleships operate in the Federation of the British Fleet. The British. Marine Minister Alexander announced yesterday that at least 530 submarines of the Axis Powers have been sunk or damaged since the beginning of the war. Mediterranean Front: British submarines want to have sunk a further 4 Italian Trosship in the Mediterranean. North Africa: Air attack on Rommel's airfields near the fighting area. West Front: Brit. Mosquito fighter planes attacked yesterday afternoon targets in Bremen, Hanover and Wilhelmshafen"successful". The war in the Far East:" The Japanese mueasen guuf New Guinea retreat before the advancing Australians. CA American air attacks on Quadalcanar. It follows an extremely detailed and space-filling reflection of a by General Smuts vør dem brit. Parliament's speech, in which he commends Lloyd Georges and Winston Churchills, first of all the "excellent leadership" of Lloyd Smuts, then emphasizes the heroism and unbreakable fighting spirit of the British people as well as of all other Allied peoples (Russia, China and the oppressed" nations). In addition, Smuts comes to speak of "Hitler's error", in which, with the fall of France, he also identified the English collapse and then turned his mindfulness away from the West and towards the Eastern Front, then the German air attacks on England are called "criminal" and one of the most severe tests for the British. Smuts is also concerned with the "temporary defeats of Great Britain (Singapore)!, which are only referred to as a consequence of the fall of France. Ím also referred to the early counter-fence of the Allies, which would "smooth" "Nazism" for all times from the world". Finally, Smuts fantasizes of his existence after the wars, and it would be important to build on the basis of an allied international community.