STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2554, sig. 109-12/201

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English Translation

6 The guilty conscience When Benesch and Masaryk once told a far-flung joke that they got off the train in Geneva, the luggage carriers in the station hall shouted out loud: " Bagage! Bagage!" Then Benesch said to his master and master: "Go back hoim, döi kenna us dau scho!"