English Translation

No.171Stck.24x1Abt.L Dt.10.14Event: Reports 8.poh waga -2- Churchill's special message on the London radio from September 30, in the evening, to the people of Czechoslovakia, in which Churchill for the first time expressly declared the restoration of the Czechoslovak Republic as a narrow war goal, was of special effect on the Czech intellectual class. In addition, after the abolition of the customs border on 1 October 1940, an increased shortage of food is expected, although the establishment of the police border and the bans on tanning are intended to prevent a greater withdrawal of food after the Reich. The whispering propaganda has spread in all parts of the Protectorate the view that in the second winter of the war there is to be expected a famine and a coal crisis. Nothing or too little has been done by the relevant Czech authorities to eliminate this alarming attitude of the Czech public. This was clearly seen by the impact of the well-known speech by the Minister of the Reich, Dr. Goebbels, to Czech artists and journalists in Berlin on 11.9.1940.