English Translation

My.Om/8rt-I A bep S Proterto Res Division I Prague, October 8, 1941 02/81 The Relehsprotector d Mr Under-Secretary 10.fov.41 $lf. Ani. Rpr.8 Bearb. d T d Dr. Landmann and confidentially reported to him the following: In a meeting of the ministers that took place these days, Minister Ježek told the other ministers that the government had to state clearly in the present circumstances that a government programme had to be drawn up with very clear guidelines. Members of the government, who are not unreservedly and without any mental reservation to this program, must go. Then the President Dr. Hácha would have to be moved to the leader in order to obtain clear information from the leader about the content of the autonomy. Anyone who made this last proposal was not mentioned by Min. Rat Gerl. There was a disagreement in the Council of Ministers as to whether the programme should be completed before Hácha's visit to the Führer or only on the basis of the outcome of that visit. At the same meeting, Minister Krejči said that all ministers would probably be burdened by their relations with Eliáš and that it would be useful to make journalists Kremen a minister of praganda.