English Translation

4o A b s c h r i f t . Prague, 25 January 194o. After departure 5.ad. St.S. to the K. Gehe in h201=.40. Telex. To the Führer - personally - Berlin. This year's Agriculture Minister, who is suspected of participating in an illegal organization against us and should therefore leave government in the context of the forthcoming restructuring of the cabinet, has, as President Hácha told me, disappeared after an agitated confrontation with it since yesterday. Protectorate government takes on suicide or escape. The latter, in spite of a farewell letter addressed to the President, in which suicide intentions are expressed, is probably after the same period of one week, when the price education committee Nečas has been burdened with the same cause. Behavior at work is either to be regarded as an admission of his guilt or, if government communication is credible, that under Neča's influence he only took part in meetings of secret organization twice and then gave up further participation on his own initiative, to declare as an expression of fear of access by secret state police in a kind of psychosis. The President of the State today dismissed from the Ante and appointed Minister of Justice Krejči with provisional direction to the Ministry of Agriculture.