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METROPOL-Gesellschaft Für Bemerkungen 8-a3 E. Matthes & Co. BERLIN-CHARLOTTENBURG 2, Uhlandstr. 184 Telex: 91 05 20 Zeitungs-Ausschnitt-Büro Zeitung: Völkischer Beobachter Place of publication: Berlin 30. 9. 1944 Date: Zurtschechische Lage A b( By Wilhelm Pleyer In a very serious and decisive manner, Minister of State K.H. Frank, in an article entitled "A word at an hour's notice to the Czechs, and Minister Moravec followed him as a warning example with a reference to Warsaw. These words were directed above all at those Czech minority, which consists predominantly of intellectuals; for this minority could most likely be inclined to be lured into an adventure by Bolshevik agitators, which would have to result in easily foreseeable consequences. At this hour, the emphasis may not be superfluous that Bolshevism not only has to oppose Czech farmers and commercialists, but that there is also a considerable hundreds of Czech intellectuals who see Bolshevik as he is under the impression. the recent events in the role of guardians of Anglo-Americans are no longer able to believe and therefore must wish for German victory, no matter how much they originally opposed it. From the certain disparity the mass of Czech intellectuals has not yet, by its very nature, found out. And since for the Czechs nationaie radicalism has led the great word through decades and has overcome almost every voice of reason, he is still a determining element even today, although he must whisper. Even today, the Bornishness, which helped to crush the Danube Empire, does not care about the European Community, and those who look beyond the face of the Fatherland church tower are still regarded as national traitors to the spokesmen and mood makers. At the very least, it is significant for a wise insight even of the nationalist hot spurs that they, too, no longer put the formerly so famous "Western democracies" into their account, but clearly see and represent the decision "Reich or Bolshevism". But now they say: "If Bolshevism comes, then a certain neck shooting will be used, and there may be about half a million to be reckoned with.