STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1199, sig. 109-4/953 Page 13 · 13 of 34
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1199, sig. 109-4/953
English Translation
1* 3./ when assessing the psychological effect of a clear statement by the government against Benesch too much guided by his own assessment of the psychological constitution of the Czech people, but this could understandably be less taken into account, especially in the case of the German war.He immediately agreed and mentioned that I am certainly right and that, moreover, the Czech government had probably shown the will to slowly retrain the people, however, that this path had been partly the same. The third part of his conversation, as I had expected, dealt with the perhaps too cular censorship treatment of the daily newspaper "Vlajka" in recent times.In my reply, I pointed out that the "Vlajka" was not treated more kulantly than other daily newspapers. the speech of the Secretary of State SS group leader Frank made as the basis of a positive article and in these a few remarks about the government's insatiability to the emigrant propaganda, this could never be, as he must admit, a reason to intervene in censorship, because what was said in it is correct.Minister Havel- ka recalled that there could only always be the question when judging these things: "What good is it?" An assumed government of a communist newspaper in the Oppositipn is constantly judged and positively committed, so it cannot be regarded as a benefit.I opposed this argument of the Havalka, that in this case there may be no benefit, but that the government would certainly not see any reason in such a case to let censorship intervene. If he had now taken this example, the same would have to apply to the newspaper "Vlajka". Whether this spelling of the "Vlajka" would be useful is therefore the second question.However, there was no reason to intervene in this case. As a particularly important proposal, Havelka proposed the following plan: He planned a large reduction in the possibility of receiving foreign stations.He had therefore been given an expert opinion by his technicians at the Ministry of Transport/Ministry of Posts on the possibilities that could lead to the goal in this matter.