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Draft. German Minister of State Prague' May 1944. Bohemia and Moravia. Mr. Ministerial Director Schultze-Schlutius, dzt.P r e B b u r g Hotel Carlton. Dear Mr. Schultze. My adviser, Dr. Winkler, has reported to me that the chairman of the Slovak government committee has requested that the government committees deal with the division of the assets of the organizations responsible for the management of alcohol in the former Czechoslovak.Republic and the fixing of the purchase price for the Slovak branch of the company Sublima in Bressnitz. The two questions are not related to the negotiations on the German-Slovak goods and payments, but form an excerpt from the negotiations for the implementation of the German–Slovac agreement of 13 April 1940 on the sovereign debt and the state assets of the former Czechoslovak Republic. These issues have so far been negotiated directly between my ministry and the Slovak Ministry of Finance with the agreement of the Foreign Office. The negotiations on the division of the assets of the Spirit Associations, which took place in Vienna on 28 and 29 April 1944, have failed,because there was no agreement between the German and Slovak authorities on aprixat-law requirement of 8.45 million K, which the Spirit Union claims against the Association of Slovak Cooperatives in Bratislava. I attach a copy of the minutes of this negotiation to your information. A state interference in these private law relations between the two entities does not seem to me to be justified in substance and contradicts the provision in the last sentence of paragraph 18(2) of the agreement of 13 April 1984. The division of the assets will have to be deferred until the end of the dispute, if not, as my representatives have suggested, only the remainder of the property remaining after the separation of the contested claim should be shared.