English Translation

214 -T- file note. Conversations on the occasion of the visit of foreign journalists in March 1944 in Prague. Lately written down due to illness. 1.) I asked my Swiss neighbor during the f.geicb meal about the possibilities of an information about the local conditions in his home ziin huimbeb daily press. He replied that there were very large difficulties there. He experienced this in his own article. The Swiss press, for the most part, did not make it possible to present the German point of view. He added that, however, the methods of the German propagan h herein would be in addition to certain anti-German and pro-engli- cal attitudes of the Swiss debt. si Dry ang German representations are usually held in a black-and-white style and assumed a certain 1 KKäkkKxIharäk infallible point of view. This would be the case for the Swiss, who are accustomed to discussing the matter, on the nerves. German propaganda in principle never admits that there are mistakes on the German side. /2 The anti-propaganda, on the other hand, almost often begins with the admission of certain mistakes; that is, a farmer's hobby with success. Because the average bieder schweiter think that if they admit their own mistakes, then they are objective, so I can believe their positive assertions. He pointed out that Czechoslovakia had a good name and that it still had the cue of the former democracy. In addition, it was difficult to place explanatory representations in the Swiss press. He would not be sure, for example, whether his reports on this journalistic journey would be printed. The prospects would be better in the Zeitachriftenpresse. There it would probably be more general and more fundamental representations. Perhaps this would also force the daily pregse to take up these questions. I had the impression that the Swiss