English Translation

54 Radio conversation withIwersen for shortwave stations to the USA. Answers: 1.) To the real political sense of the Czech people, which suppresses resentment and allows the sober understanding to prevail. Many Czechs can never forget the behavior of the former allies in Munich. They expect nothing better from you in the future. Moreover, the Czechs are bourgeois people and do not think of replacing their rest, the well-ordered pledge and the fairly proper merit for x vague promises and safe blood sacrifices. They like to work and fight properly and don't need them. 2.) The Czechs do not like both ideologies. But before Bol-shewism the Czech peasants and citizens, - I mean the possessors, - have real fear. From us they feel and already know that we do not want to make them Nazi. - We have no interest in this - and/or that they are allowed to live their own cultural life! In addition to the loss of their lands and possessions, they fear Bolshevism also the (remote destruction of their national culture. As Europeans they are simply afraid of Asia, the Manenausdun from zcushal Asia. On the 3rd) you the fact that Beneš travelled from Mr. Roosevelt in Washington to Stalin to Moscow, and in both cities with battalions of honour, diñers and toasts as a great European statsman was celebrated hrgoumy initially a part of the Czech intelligence childishly. tar These Czechs rejoiced at the great son they gave to the world as a small people. But right after Affugh concluded the Russian Pact and announced its contents, the great disillusionment and - in Momoriam of the Baltic States, Finland, Poland, etc. - the fear of the future of their beloved homeland came.