English Translation

The Oberlandrat Geheim May 3, 1940. Ztin, the 438 telephone number 401=406 a I Herr datess dese Staatstekretürs It is asked to indicate this sign and the 88 subject matter in further letters. ben Reichsprotektoe -person, made in Bühmen with regard to payment in foreign currency. At the request of the German authorities, Zlin from Jan Bata suggested that he could influence the foreign companies. The letter, which Jan Bada subsequently sent to the foreign firms, is ambiguous. He exhorts them in the letter that they might support the mother plant in Zlin. At the same time, however, he gives them a hint as to how they can inexhaustibly continue their previous hostile policies. i E D The opinion of the Bata commissioner that the / .