English Translation

- 2 - 83 Industry also receives an extremely valuable and far-reaching propaganda of a special kind and for it does not matter at all at present in the employment situation. The industrial association has been given by me the assurance that a second such advertisement from the Reichsprotector would not take place in the year l940. The contribution for an official advertisement is paid off with this action. Czech industry has wrongly tried to evaluate my commitment. Several companies have now explained that the industry in Bohemia and Moravia should no longer advertise in any other German newspaper or magazine. They have tried to avoid the task of advertising in German newspapers at all. It goes without saying that I took action immediately against it. The representative of the "South East Echo" considered these well-calculated messages coming from the Czech side to be true and reported them to his publisher with other equally silent rumors. Of course, it would have been a duty of the publisher to check with the competent authority whether the representative report corresponds to the facts at all. However, the publisher did not do so, but instead used the report, in an irresponsible way, to take action against the people of WFPH and Reich Verlaggverziehung against the industrial association, official bodies in Berlin. The situation created by this action for the workers, the rumors that have arisen from these false communications, have truly not encouraged our plans.