GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 989, sig. 110-9/5 (damaged)

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68 - 22 - and in both states with battalions of honour, diners and toasts is welcomed and the guarantee of a coming Czech-Slovakia in the briefcase brings with it to London. They do not want to believe that the little Beneš is used by the great powers only as a figure in the political chess game. They are ready to welcome enemy troops with cheer and discuss whether Beneš could possibly be a future president, but generally have no desire to beat their lives into the ski jumps and wait for the things that come. For the enemy powers and for emigration it is now becoming increasingly clear that it has been wrong to give up the slogan since the attack on Heydrich for years; "Blood spare, not hasty insurrections. It does not take long without that. The kingdom collapses in a few weeks or months and the day of freedom comes by itself". It is clear today that Beneš, in Moscow V, has entered into an obligation to - probably with a very short date - by your connections to the Czechs living in his homeland - which he does not really have or only has very sparsely - to bring up the insurgency movement in the Protectorate, to form partisan groups, sabotage files, detonations of traffic, important military facilities, etc. Mteeem It is to be assumed that Beneš will lose his contract in the event of failure of this action and that he will not be able to do so.