English Translation

2 Czechoslovak Council of State in London agrees in full with the President's words when he states: for us and the Czech people there is no protectorate, but no Czech President in his home country and no Czech government. We also do not recognize the existence of an independent Czechoslovakia." This position was particularly impressively repeated and emphasized by the chairman of the Czechoslovak Council of State, especially at a time when the Czech President Dr. Hácha clearly showed himself as the helper of the Nazis. The Council of State stated that the proposal to send a message from this plenary session to the home country, to whose advisers the Consistorial Councillor Frant. Hála was appointed, had been adopted unanimously. Dr. Hubert Ripka was then asked to give a brief summary of the news available on the latest developments in the home region. Ripka stressed that the whole Czech people were now united to fight against a common enemy. This attitude would not give up the Czech people until the end-valid annihilation of Nazi Germany. Then he came to speak of the attack on Heydrich carried out by two heroic Czechs on the bright day: "This attack can only be regarded as a spontaneous reaction of the tortured Czech people to the German atrocities and terror measures during the last years. Even if the so-called Czech President Dr. H Hácha and the representatives of the so-called Czech government are in vain trying to put the London Czech Government and its President Beneš to blame for the events in the Protectorate, so it is not necessary to go further. The attack is the expression of the entire people for their quest for freedom and the answer to all the inhumane measures of the Nazis in the Czech countries. For this outbreak only the Nazi criminals can be held responsible and all the treacherous elements that helped them to carry out their actions. Cdrreccce Háchas are not only useless and unsuccessful, but also criminal. This former judge seems to have forgotten the primal elements of every human right. Há-cha differs in his actions in nothing from