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17 VAL.MEHLER · AKT.-GES.· FULDA BLATT 2 OF 12.1. TO Mr Secretary of State Dr. K.H. Frank, Prague, F. I would like to ask the Commission whether it is prepared to take the necessary steps to ensure that the Commission's proposals are implemented in accordance with the principles laid down in the Treaty of Rome. I can explain this all the less because not only have I personally clarified all the details relating to the purchase in over two years of negotiations with countless journeys to Prague and with extensive own use, but also all the economic considerations, especially those relating to war economy, for the transfer of businesses to me. Without exaggeration, I can claim that in my Mehler plant, I have produced war-related services in a far-sighted, but also risky, entrepreneurial initiative, which are absolutely unique in the textile industry at least, and which cannot be overestimated at all in their importance for the military power of the empire. It is precisely because we have taken up the task of developing new areas of application for German materials in economically important sectors, for example in the manufacture of vehicle and aircraft tyres made of artificial silk or in the production of conveyor belts made of synthetic silk, early and already in the hair, i.e. So before a pronounced shortage or a state of emergency made it necessary to transfer a direct state order with all the resulting reliefs, precisely that is why I and my closest employees, all alone, had placed on ourselves to eliminate a great deal of difficulties that we were able to claim with pride for ourselves. Now that the war has shown with the greatest possible clarity how important these works were, I think it is a really not indefensible claim to express the expectation that the responsible bodies will provide us with the support we need to carry out our tasks. However, the only way to create the basis on which to evaluate and further develop what has been achieved so far has now been done was by means of the objectives alone, and so the two companies were one of the most important planning elements for us, whose use for our production I could doubt all the less, since I was admitted to the acquisition in all forms and the On several occasions, negotiations on this subject could be considered to have been concluded. It follows from these contexts that the now planned sale of the plants to another side, not only for me personally the efforts made in almost two and a half years with one blow would lead to a useless waste of time, but also for my local operation and equally for the German armaments industry would have consequences, which could be impossible, all the more b.w.