English Translation

Copy! from May 26, 1942, test. No. 134/II/42. London - (Czech) - 6.30 p.m. Géspräche mit der Heimat. (Strength disturbed.) The Prague radio brings programmes that call for politeness ..... Poem ... be friendly and laugh, laughter is so healthy ... when the Germans put on the chains ... so say friendly: Please! The German propaganda is trying to ridicule the Czechs against their President Benesch. Nothing is more understandable, because the clearer the German. Catastrophe is on the horizon, the more certain 'quisslings' and La- caien mood must make. President Benesh represents the symbol of the German defeat... The German editors know well why they are rushing against him... Even they don't believe in victory anymore... but it would suit them if the people believed in the victory... Benesch knew what development Munich would entail... President Benesch always predicted the future correctly... He saw the case of Poland... He clearly foresaw that World War II had to come to Munich. Benesch did not hide his fears about France either. He said on 19 June 1940: Whatever happens to France, if it is occupied... When it was expected in America that Britain would give up the war in the event of a defeat of France, Benesch immediately predicted that Britain was going to endure in the fight. He further predicted that Britannia would not remain alone, that the Soviet Union would intervene and that America would help. The Soviet Union, in Benesch's view, was clear that Hitler was planning attacks against them... Schom in 4O said Benesch: "We have to expect an American Jntervention in Europe." 41 said Benesh: "we can be sure that the US is becoming more and more active in its aid... When the Balkan campaign came,