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

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8a .' - 12 - vote. It is interesting, and I have only said today that all the answers to this request from Paris, London and Petersburg dated 28, October 19i4, were elected to trustmen: in France F.Jackl, R.Kepl and V.Crkal, in England: Fr. Kopecký, J. Sýkora and J.Stanislav, in Russia: B.Čermák, Vlad.Štolovský and Georg Klecanda.. As soon as the confidants in Europe were told, there was a lively correspondence between us, the first letter from Paris informed the election of the leaders and carried the date of the 28th Oct.bar, Jin further screams came from October 30, then from November 5, in which a picture from Paris was sent to us - the icy photograph of a group of Czech volunteers in France. Another letter was written on 7 November, from which one can see how quickly the letters followed each other. Ebensc is with the English and with the Rusian corresion. It is not my task today to take Bissellhsites through the development of the revolution, and I have only touched on it in the context of the common foreign and security policy, and it is also interesting to see that the 28th of October l9l4 is the date on which the organised Czech revolution began. We learned from French, English and Russian attributions what was going on elsewhere. I knew in America, I want to say, much more clearly into things than the andorienters, to whom I could not say everything well and surely. A painful situation arose, one had to demand an absolut trust. In the East I had it, but in the West there was always a certain bias against the East. I asked Mr Štěpins in Chicago and Mr Kuták in Omaha to promote fellow-confidentials for America. I told them all the correspondence between me and Masaryk. They, who occupied the Vertravan in the West, were once again encircled by the groups of their confidants and thus an organization of confidantes was created,*which never rose 84 members. To date, these things have not been discussed and not written, and today I share some of the details, but not all of them.