English Translation

- 22 - i I would like to say a few words about the current political situation in the Protectorate. It is due to the following circumstances: (a) our own front position, which must naturally have its effects on the special Czech character, (b) an extraordinarily skillful enemy propaganda from London and Moscow, which, of course, knows exactly what possibilities it has in such a receptive foreign-völker area in the heart of the empire; (c) through the journeys of the Emigrant Chief Dr. Eduard Beneš after Washington to Roosevelt and Moscow to Stalin and his undoubtedly not insignificant successes in diplomatic territory and d) by the great speech of Beneš, which he held in February 1944 before the Soviet Czechoslovak Council of State and its government in London in the presence of guests from the Allied camp. The Czechs generally believe in and wish for our defeat. They have the hope that perhaps not the Bolsheviks, but the English and Americans first invade Bohemia sbαn~ilstaat and Moravia. The Czech peasant and the possessing 22 citizens have their own fear of the Bolsheviks and do not trust the ma- nipulations Beneš'ś with Stalin. On the other hand, this horror is especially with a larger part of the Czech intelligence / heard by a childlike joy about the great son Dr.Eduard Beneš, the