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M 104a 2 Nevertheless, I believe that there is the greatest prospect in front of the old Slovak leaders, who did not go to the partisans, since even the President Tiso in not misunderstood Wese has repeatedly expressed his loyalty to the Czechoslovak state idea and thus to the panslavist idea. In particular, I cannot warn enough of the restoration of a Slovak Wehrmacht and the toleration of the country's external political activity. - ad 4/. (the Slovak leadership) was appointed on 4.9.a.c. a new Slovak ministry, headed by the President of the Pressburg Supreme Court, Dr. Stefan Tiso. Although Dr.Tiso in German circles rightly enjoys a gu+on reputation, it should not be overlooked that he is the cousin of the spiritual president and the brother of the former Slovak ambassador in Moscow. Part of the ministers was taken over from the previous Tuka government, which can be thoroughly approved by the Minister of Finance and Economics. On the other hand, it would have been appropriate to exchange Sano Mach as Minister of the Interior, who is a completely insignificant figure and has no annex in the Slovak people. The other problems are still waiting for its solution. After the urgency as it seems to me, I would like to comment briefly on the individual questions as follows: a) The representation of the Empire in Slovakia. Although Slovakia is a German state of protection, the representation of the empire, apart from the advisers of individual ministries who have sunk to total insignificance, has moved in the usual diplomatic forms vis-à-vis sovereign states. However, according to the experience gained, this does not correspond to the war-related interests of the kingdom. of the Hungarian regulation to appoint an authorised representative of the Empire for Slovakia. Of course, the former sent-and-daily Kudin is not eligible for this post after the complete debacle of his ministry. At the same time as the change in the person of the envoy would have taken place a sweeping revirement in the staff of the embassy as well as in the corps of the advisers, since ./. 65347