English Translation

4.Bears the report on the activities of the Deputy Primator for the period from 1/12.1941 to 31/1.1942. THE PRIMATOR-STELL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MAIN CITY PRAG. 1942, which I reported on earlier occasions. The budget was submitted to the Administrative Commission at the beginning of January. In view of the fact that, according to the total volume, it did not show a significant increase compared to the previous year - had - the 200 million kroner used for air protection only apparently burden the budget, they should be refunded by the - Reich - it was to be expected that the administrative commission would follow the remarks of the city chamberlain without debate. However, it argues for a certain stiffening of political conditions that some Czechs spoke and fought against some of the basic positions of the whole budget building. Above all, they took the view that the proposed increase in municipal contributions was from 300% to 350%, and that they were still in the spirit of the municipal finance system in the Czech Republic, which was finally expressed in the fact that each year a debt subsidy of more than one hundred million kroner was to be drawn without the slightest attempt being made to inhibit this development. The budget I942 is bringing about a decisive change here, since it is the first time that it envisages a debt repayment of some 200 million kroner. Just because a lot of large companies in the various areas of the tax system had been made to the citizenry by the city administration so far, such a reversal had been impossible. We gained the impression from the debate of the further that the Czechs want to give the Prague city administration as little income as possible because they see in it a German opportunity for a long time now. At the same meeting, the primator still had a number of significant violations of the language law provisions which I rejected at the moment and then in a special letter. Despite these markedly different backgrounds from previous years,