STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2712, sig. 109-14/14

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- 18 - where in three inetanzs, the ministries, appointed by the State Preeident and confirmed by the Reichsprotektor, functioned as the central authority. The Winisters themselves form the Kinister Council, a body which must, in common with the state president Hácha, fill the Lüoke, which was metabolised by the dissolution of the legislative bodies of the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Council of Ministers, acting in cooperation with the State President, has been endowed with powers of order. The central levels of the administration are the Landing Authorities in Prague for Bohemia and in Brno for nutrition, as well as the Dehörden, which the single State President and Minister of the Interior of Bienert has called (as the Konstre Authorities, European Nurioaities). I believe that they are in their somewhat prodigious orgoni- zation and work, which still increases the over-satisfaction with civil servants, the larger authorities of Zuropas. In a positive sense it can be said of them that they, as it supersedes the Deterreish tradition, actually embody the unity of administration to a large extent, i.e. that their responsibilities relate to almost all the administrative branches - aud mirhlif vmfafagaut fie strenny Da similar to the legislative bodies - 19 -