English Translation

In reference to the radio address directed against Bata and the press release, he clearly admitted that "it had happened in the hits of the battle." These events, that charges were made without conerete documents, would not be repeated. In the government, a Bata debate had not taken place at all; it was rather a matter of individual announcements without any concretization. Batovany-Simonovany had been visited by the international press some time ago as a model company. Bata was by no means the company which included most of the Czechs as employees /of 9 995 employees - 53 Czechs - 0.55% and among the Slovak 15 Czechs .7 %/. Other works are known, for which 2 O00 members have voluntarily transferred to the partisans; for particular reasons, however, they have been spoken of in the public." The debate with Minister Gaspar has clearly shown that the calls contained in the radio address were not concrete and that therefore today there is a certain regret that Pirma Bata has attacked all over the world. • The first advice, which went to Pressburg and the Protectorate about the events, probably came from an employee, who was not at all in Šimonovany and only reported what he had heard from third persons in Ginem third places. In a later report, the same did not keep up his first report. It has been shown that, from the reports from Slovakia, very significant