GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 738, sig. 110-5/27

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12a 46- the American supply of weapons and ammunition to the allies. They therefore, with the help of the Germans in Amerika, in the whole of the United States, called for a profound pacifist movement, which, by preventing the export of the ammunition and weapons, allegedly reduced the European bloodshed, de facto helping the Germans to win under the guise of pacific tendencies, at that time very many Amerikans were pacifitists, even striving for peace at all costs, even at the price of the defeat of the Allies. Defaitism was certainly ideal for the Americans, but from the point of view of time and the situation it was at least very naive, and this defaitism has been supported by the refined endeavour of all American Germans and Germanophiles, and his character was, of course, quite political and, in fact, very dangerous and immoral in terms of these Germans. The dangerous German Hamerling was one of the leading leaders of the German campaign, and was even more dangerous when he also had influence on the Czech and Slovak journalists. But the Czechoslovaks are working hard all over America against this campaign for the embargo and, with the other factors, achieve that the ban on the export of weapons did not take place. The Germans and Austrians therefore decide to take another criminal step: through strikes, they disturb the calm and operation of the munitions factories, shout out sabotages of all kinds, sink the Allied ships with their cargo of weapons and food by bombs, fire on them, destroy ammunition factories with vide workers' lives, poison horses and cattle by explosion, prepare the launch of important railway tunnels and with desperate courage they take everything to prevent this help from America to the struggling Europe. The whole of America is excited by new broadcasts every day. In this atmosphere, Emanuel Voska finds the field of his activity. With the help of a courageous Czech revolutionary, who is currently an official of the Austro-Hungarian Consu- lates in New York, Franz Kopecký, and a network of his trusted and helpers, he exposes these criminal activities, leads to the trail of criminals and proves to the astonished world, - 47 -