English Translation

-10.37 if we do not want to spend the money which is difficult to raise -- see paragraph 4.) --. I think that the idea that the previous form of export support by maintaining the external trade account on the old price basis - at least for a transitional period - should take place should fail because, once a customs union has been aligned with the old Reich, there is no room for a special burden on the import of the protectorate for exports. Presumably, the implementation of this proposal would require an extremely complicated construction by the Price Commissioner, which is also undesirable for other reasons. Zu__2o): It is assumed that the wage level in the Protectorate is on average 25% below that of the old age, but the differences are extremely large. There are, for example, industries in which the difference is only a few %, while in particular industries in remote agricultural districts it is up to 5 % and 6 %. For example, I was referred to by the machine industry as comparative figures: a certain gualified worker in a Brno machine factory receives approximately RM 3o--- in the week, in the old Reich RM 45o- and in a machine factory in the deepest Moravia RM l8.--. A comparison with the rich German wage level, which for socio-political reasons, but also because of the