English Translation

24 The head of the fibtellung V Prague, 20 November 1944 (Fulturpolitik) \v -1472/44 . inisteramt Fing. 21. NOV. 1944 Minister of State SS-Obergruppenführer Fr a n k im H a u s e . Subject: Swiss middle press (L ́Agence Presse Suisse Moyenne). The above-mentioned news agency was recently quoted in the Protectorate press with a report on Czecho-Slovak emigration. The International Press Cartel states about this agency: "Seated in Bern. Founder and Director: Sam H a a s. Gegr. l9l8. Correspondence published twice a day in German and French (articles, commentary and news for domestic and foreign policy) for the central and smaller newspapers in Switzerland. The number of subscribers is about 250 newspapers, of which l50 obtain their material from the "medium press", while the rest treats correspondence mainly as a commentating Swiss-speaking supplementary service to the world news material of the "Swiss Depeschen Agency". The service is the personal foundation of his head Sam H a a s, who assigned the company to a father-land purpose association, to which mainly the interested newspaper publishers belong. Also developed in brochures the program of the "medium press" includes the following main points:Strengthening of internal Swiss solidarity, maintaining Swiss culture as well as polemics and replicas against all attempts to attack the Swiss-democratic consensus from the outside. Haas was editor at the Berner y isbilheler ay before the First World War.