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

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DivisioniV Strictly confidential! Group Broadcasting Only for the personal service- Broadcasting and reverberation use! To be carried out on its own responsibility! Test. - No.... / § 353 c RStGB./ B e r i c h t e of l7. Jünner l941. 5.a.d/1.40 SENDER London /Czech/: In Fokyo today in the early hours of the morning a representative of the government declared that the government will shortly give an answer to Hull's statement to the Foreign Policy Committee of the House of Representatives. Later, the Japanese announced that the Government had decided not to make such a statement. - The Japanese press is indignant about Hull's explanation and stresses that Hull has twisted the plot and that his explanation is a challenge to the axis. Japan is leading the greatest war of sëiner Gesèhichte and does not raise any demands against the USA. The Japanese newspaper Asai Schibbun writes that Hully has gone even further in his speech than Roosevelt in his recent declarations. The newspaper states that the Japanese Foreign Minister will formally head the Hull Declaration next week in his speech in Parliament.- Belgium still refuses to cooperate with the Germans. The "Brussels newspaper" writes: Many Belgian mayors sabotage the distribution of food, the courts impose too mild penalties against the smuggling trade, because they regard it as a domestic act, the police still have not become aware of the fact that the country is occupied by the Germans. - In East Flanders alone, during the past month of 2000 there were cases of fraud in court. - The members of the Reich Colonial League, who make such great efforts to awaken the idea of colonization in the people, will have been very unaccompanied when they read an article in the "Black Corps", which concerned this question.In this article it is said that the German people must free themselves from the phantom of the East Colonies. The majority of the people cannot tolerate the African climate, and there is enough living space for everyone in all parts of the German Empire. - 5 Talks with the homeland: Secretary of State Frank and Pührer of the Gestapo called on some members of the government on the l4.l. and asked them to take stren- sive measures against the fraud. Only a crook like Frank can ask for a solo step and the press can order her to write about it first. The Germans steal our country in all directions. Frank and his people enrich themselves wherever there is an opportunity to live in prosperity at the expense of the people. And the self-protection of the people against these thefts of the Germans is then called creeping trade. The powerless czech. People have no protection and no weapons against the Nazi terror, but that it helps their neighbour, and that is his human and national duty.