STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 683, sig. 109-4/431

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iFlunkpt houk he Security Service RF 4 i bgag SD section Prague 8.06/9 Number: 127/42 . Prague, 22.10.1942 Daily report (Strictly confidential, only for the public service use of the recipient) I. General situation and mood: As far as opinions on the speech of the State Secretary K,H. Frank on the occasion of the renaming of the Moldovan lands in Reinhard-Heydrich-Ufer of 18.10.42 in the individual ngch, is mainly expressed the view that the statements of the Secretary of State are meant to be serious, but to be viewed fairly, especially the exhibition of the performance of the workers' and peasantry and the anerkeny of the goodwill of those population circles, which broke their positive attitude to the expression, is perceived as essential, calming and trusting also had the effect of pointing out that if dex's duties to work were fulfilled, no one would have to fear that they would be resettled after the war. Unlearnable Czech intellectual circles, however, see in the speech mostly only negative circumstances, The view that the statements of the Secretary of State are very considerable and have brought to the greater part positive for the Czechs, is by no means affected by the fact that in individual statements to certain points of the speech. The chief editor of "Národni střed", Chalupa, considers the fact that Frank had not condemned the Czech intelligence as a whole, as opposed to the opinion of Minister Moravec. A 2 - 117