A SOCIETY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2043, sig. 109-7/50

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140 Czechs and Slovaks in Yugoslavia will continue to work together for the sake of minority interests. The report also points out that the distribution of newspapers from the Protectorate distance should be withdrawn, because the propaganda in it is forced on the newspapers and should not be spread among the Czechs there. "There is no doubt in the reports of the Consulate General in Agram and the German Embassy in Belgrade that the Czechoslovak Association is working in its aim, under its current leadership, strongly against the Dettian interests. The suspension of all subsidies to the Association d of Protectorate Authorities, for example, has been initiated, but since the Association is very capital-strong and no influence can be exercised on it by the imposition of subsidies, the German delegation in Belgrade requests in a report to the Foreign Office to work with the Yugoslav Government to put an end to the anti-German activities of the Association by its dissolution. In this context, mention should also be made of the "Czechoslovak House A.G." (Cehoslovacki dom a.d.) in Belgrade, which was founded at the time to build a house for the accommodation of Czech culture= and colonial institutions. The share capital, which had been raised at the time of the foundation mainly from donations of Czech associations as well as goods of Czechoslovakian or former Czechoslovak nationals, is controlled by the branch of Anglo=Prager Bank in Belgrade. In the Czechoslovak house there is a Czech school, law firms of the Czecho-Slovak Federation, branch office Belgrade, the Yugoslavian=Czechoslovac League, community rooms, canteens, etc., which are available to Czech associations. In the rooms of the tsch house there was a temporary advertising office for Czech legionnaires who came from the Protectorate or the Yugoslav province and from there were transferred abroad