English Translation

-2 - 18 The agreement was reached that Dr. Popper, the great president of the lodge, should go to London and work there through personal traffic and lectures in the Czech-Slovak sense. The agreement found the approval of the section chief Hájek and his deputy Dr. Oskar Butter, who had made his career as a former Maffia Jew. The Jew waiter informed Dr. Popper, who was then in Venice, of the outcome of the meeting, while the Jew Dr. Butter hurried to teach the London envoy of the Reypublik, Jan Masaryk, officially. MasaryK immediately agreed to his further support. Josef Popper dealt with a man who was considered to be the real leader and organiser of Judaism in Czechoslovakia and who was the chairman of the "Highest Jewish Council" in the Republic. Since the year 1992l he has held the leading position of Grand President of the B'nai B'rith Order. Its Czech-Slovak district, which had been founded in 199 as a Jewish Grand Lodge X, was governed by three Pragues and memnx other no lodges spread over the larger cities of the Republic. In addition, Popper was in leading positions of various Jewish world organizations and was the first chairman of the "Arbeits-Gemeinschaft der außeramischen Logen des Orden B'nai B'rith" (Work Community of the Extra-American Lodges of the Order of B'rai B'rit), which gave him the importance of a supreme representative of Jewish Freemasonry in Europe. The permanent leadership of the l878 officially founded, however, dating back to the year l843 with a New York Jewish lodge, lies in the USA. The chairman is from the states of Paris in 1937.