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(i+10.M.40.70 - 4 - Merchant fleet already lies on the sea floor. Jhr heard that even Churchill admitted that the British losses are rising. Jn England is not hiding anything from the people and the difficulties of the war are not always seen with a rosy glasses. This in contrast to Germany. The successes of the German submarines must be fought in an extremely severe manner if they are to bring England into severe distress. It is not a question of how many ships are sunk, but of how much the British ports can safely reach, no shortage has yet occurred here. You get everything that the colonies produce. The figures of the German propaganda are lying. We had at the beginning of the war a merchant fleet of 22 million, Germany 4 million tons. Since then England has built new ships and continues to build. It also still confiscates German ships on the seas. It rents numerous neutral ships. It builds new ships in the colonies and in the USA. The Germans would have to sink 5oo ships a year to compensate only for the new purchases. 8oo.ooo To. German ships were confiscated alone. Behind England stands the production of the Jmperium and the USA and with this production Germany cannot keep up, because its Jndustrie is constantly exposed to the blows of the British Air Force. The German submarines do not get any further with the blockade. Follows lecture on the "Jnternationale Lage" (author not called)! " In 1935 I gave a lecture on Abyssinia in a Czech city. It was not easy at that time to convince a tailor who had his own opinions, a locomotive driver who knew Marx's "capital" by heart, or a teacher who had read the Times for years and heard Moscow's radio, of my opinion. Today these people must hear what German propaganda is all about. You must also have articles drawn by Czechs who are ordered from the first to the last word and where the re- dacteur might tell you that he did not write the article himself and that his name was only arbitrarily placed under the article written in the law firm of Mr. Gregory. Therefore, all these people who are surrounded by the lies of the Nazis need news from us, from the other side, who bring the truth, news gives them daily the British radio and reports we want to give them. We want to tell him about how we learn the truth here in free England, because here the objective news comes from all over the world. Masaryk taught us that we should be here in everything. The politically trained and morally strengthened Czech man needs the truth and is not afraid of it. The international situation has not developed favorably for the Allies. What happened in Poland and Norway, Holland and Belgium etc. was not so much a military success as a political success. Above all a political one, It was more the political mistakes of the victims of Hitler, who wrote their own will and not so much the political abilities of Hitler which brought about these successes. The Polish farmer did not say to himself that he could only work in his own free field, even if the GSR was free for the Norwegians only if the Baltic states were free, the Dutchman did not see that the Germans would eat his fish, to whom one closes the theatres to the French. All of you would have missed the fact that we would all be politically suppressed one after the other if we did not want to live in common politics. They all got into the clutches of the Nazi because everyone wanted to do their own politics. It has been tragically and bloodyly confirmed to us that the war and peace are indivisible, that the world must live in common security or die together. Greece's example shows that the harvest sown in Munich is now being ended.