THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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English Translation

1.72.) The currency will no longer be openly based on gold, but, as it is said, on the work of the parties, and also on the authority of the state, which evaluates the work in the form of preservation and is financially sound. This will result in a whole series of new important conclusions and consequences in the economic and financial field. Banking in a number of continental states will seem to cease to be an individual or acquisition stock company in the form it has been managed so far. Banks will be public, generally useful institutions, not just as in today's Fbrm capitalist speculative and entrepreneurial. Money deposits will not, as before, be merely a means of unlimited unemployment, all banking (and stock exchanges) will be subject to strict state and public regulation. The so-called "plutocracy" will automatically lose the ground of its activities in the previous forms. The development itself to this new state can be completely waltless, it will be above all a matter of giving the future such attitudes and circumstances, under which not unjust unemployment incomes arise. After this war, in most European countries, large agricultural forms will continue to be carried out. All will obviously have an analogous form. The soil will - probably more in theory than in practice - be regarded as state or national property.