English Translation

Dr. ALBrecht MIESBACH Wehrwirtschaftsführer Zlin, the board member of the Bata A. G. from the Ministry of Armaments, has occasionally executed an armaments meeting in Prague, the leader has called Bata an applied na- tional socialism and that one must stop opposing Bata, that it is better to go to Zlin to learn something, etc. If one accuses the undersigned of these indications, which he has never made at all, then one encounters only Mr. Saur in front of the Czechs, not without the fact that these Czechs only shake their heads and acknowledge this dissonance. One also completely overlooks how much the German reputation and the German authority of the undersignee in the Betriel, which is important today, must suffer. We have been suggested to re-name Zlin in Zlingorcd. If in our large company, which employs 54 O00 Czech followers, any case suffers, it is generalized and raised to the affair Bata, which is capable of immediately questioning the life rights of the company. Some critics make a disparate judgment without ever having been to Zlin or even knowing the institutions and principles at all. This results in the fact that one wants to impose duties, but wants to deny rights. The fact that under 54 00 Czechs a certain set of bad and unsuitable people must be found, as is the case everywhere among people, does not mean that Bata should be considered. . A few such people can discredit the whole society. That a company under such conditions V