English Translation

In the event of a loss of such reports, these sightings would only increase. For publications of the NS districts, the relevant provincial newspapers must be widely used. As a result, the circles in question are also protected from inconvenience when those publications, when they appear in the newspapers, have passed through censorship. As a second point of discussion, Minister Havelka mentioned the interview by Prime Minister Elias.He told him that he had become aware that there were still some changes to be made, but that he could not imagine this, since he had already read the interview yesterday / by Prime minister Elias/ and that he felt that the burning questions were dealt with with with in the interview with the greatest openness to the details.I immediately expressed his opinion that any changes were desired and informed him that it was only about the fact that the interview was intended for the morning edition of November 9th and that it thus received the most extensive change and had not yet been released for this reason. In addition, I mentioned that the interview also wanted to see SS group leader Frank before his publication, so that the distribution in the midday issues did not take place for this reason.In this context, Havelka pointed out that it was the greatest mistake of the Germans to believe that the Czech government had not taken a position on Benesch's person at an earlier stage, because they were somehow scouring themselves;'to decide on this question. It is true that from the very beginning Benesch had been regarded as a private man who had no right to speak on behalf of the Czech people. For this reason, they did not want to allow his work to be officially appreciated, even if it would have been indirect or negative. Furthermore, it is wrong to place Benesch in a row with Chamberlain and Daladier, since these two are legitimate statesmen, while Benesch is only a private man. By this position of Benesch in one and the same row as the two statesmen mentioned, Benesch had only won in the Czech people.The view that this was wrong had so far led the government not to take an official position.Among the miners who had taken this view, he was also part of the government.Of course, however, the government will always do what is desired and considered good by the German side in this respect too. In response to these remarks, I replied that I felt that he was leaving