English Translation

93 - 6 - increase capital of K 4,000,000.-- and transferred shares in the same value ratio to Melantrich A.G. The interest community in this part-fusion, as banker Hašek explained, was under the sign of the domestic political conditions of Czechoslovakia after the separation of the Sudetenland last autumn. Today, however, not only the political, but also the economic conditions, which were assumed at the conclusion of the pre-contract, no longer exist. In economic Hiricht, the Novina publishing house stands on quite weak feet. He is even supposed to work passively, and it is to be expected that he will experience a further weakening in the necessarily occurring cleaning of newspaper relations in the Protectorate region of Bohemia, which can cause him to lie down. However, since the Melantrich A.G. is bound by the preliminary contract, it will be difficult, according to Hašek, to get out of the contract. His lieutenant colonel Schniewind suggested that from this point on Prime Minister B e r a n be influenced in the above direction was rejected as impossible. Hašek now wants to consider with general director Šalda whether and by what regular means of negotiation a cancellation of the contract can be sought. to allow capital to be taken over by the/Escompte bank. However, since the capital increase in the extraordinary general meeting is expressly decided to fulfil the pre-contract, it should be expedient to reverse the capital rise in the event of the cancellation of the contract, otherwise the new shareholder assembly would have to make statements for the other use of the increase capital, which would run counter to the intention not to make the changes in share ownership appear outside the contract. Hašek, Menger and Šalda want to inform immediately the result of their reflections, which route is most usefully taken and whether such a solution can be found at all to solve the contract. They assured - explicitly -