English Translation

30 to allow the execution of the sentence to be suspended in order to be able to carry out further interrogations of Elias in peace outside Bohemia and Moravia, who has the intention of making substantial further statements about his colleagues in the government and about the President of the State. I think this is so important, since it will certainly be of political value to inform these burdensome matters about the government still in office under the President-in-Office of the Council. Tomorrow, at 13.00 o'clock, the second trial begins in front of the People's Court against the former primator in Prague K l a p k a , whose conclusion and foreseeable death sentence is to be expected tomorrow evening. Further proceedings before the Peoples' Court are then no longer planned. In Klapka, too, I would ask you to refrain from pardoning me if a death sentence were to be pronounced. With regard to the standing trial that is being held on the side, I report that the number of contingencies is in the order that the death sentences initially show an increasing tendency with a peak of Sc Caa Stapo and an acquittal, which today will drop to 2-3 by the end of the week, with about 37/38 votes, so that in the course of the next few days only individual negotiations will be necessary. This handling has therefore been done in order not to reinforce the impression abroad, as if the strikes and insurrections existing in the imagination of the English would increase, but to show much more that the resistance has been broken by these decreasing court numbers.