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Security Service RFJ SD section Prague L - PA 2528 Prague; 24 August 1943 47 At the SeS at the Imperial Protector in Bohemia and Moravia 4-Upper Group Leader K.H. Fr a n k Confidential! Prague: r d f2 Anlg.: 1. The accompanying German translation contains an informative treatise on the Czech enigrant workers in the USA during the World War 1914-18 from the pen of Vojta Benesch, a brother of the long-standing foreign minister and last President Eduard Beneseh. It describes the history and weight of the USA-Czech Republic at all, marks the role of the foreign socol in America, the importance of visits from the homeland - especially from Masaryk already before the World War - and also indicates the difficulties of a political agreement between Ischechen and Slovaks in the United States, which (bocai) also occur in this war wioder. 'Particular importance is attached to the chapters of the treatise, where the political and conspiratorial activity of the U.S. is dealt with, whose meaning as "financers of the revolution" Masaryk once emphasized himself, The Czech connections from the U-S. to the Maffia of the homeland and the role of individual Czech Jews in America are implied, important personalities seem to like the later primary secretary Masaryks, Cisař, the newsman Emanuel Voska and the first Czech envoy in the USA, Pergler, who today stands as professor of an American university in sharp opposition to Benesch; the beginnings of the political work of Roosevelt, the interplay of Czech enigration with the English fublizists Wickham Stced and Seaton Watson as well as successful volunteering in the USA for the Czech. Legion in France are treated, special attention should be paid to references to 'a Czech espionage activity in the Consulates of the Central Czech Republic and the anerika-Czech rapprochement of German settlements during the World War, which among other things. the failure of Papens's mission to the Uzzi, despite all the time- and time-related differences between the situation at that time and today's world war, the treatise allows interesting parallels between once and now, these are already given by the same role as Eduard Benesch's and his brother Vojta, who, as in the world war today wioderum oine, develops the same activity in the United States. The publication dating from 1923 therefore has a particularly topical significance today. gez. Ja c o bi 4Obersturmbannführer. F.d.R.: HauptsturmführER