English Translation

0t SO AOU TT P TN administration.- As of 15/3.1944 140 staff were promoted in the main administration. - In the first three months, 244 cases of assistance were granted at a cost of 170,000.-- crowns, while the payment of the parental contributions will require around 650,000.-K.- The review of the staff status of the main administration by a special commission set up by the German Minister of State with Dr.Hawranek, the head of the ministerial council, after a detailed examination, concluded that 225 employees should still be appointed to the employment office. Of course, the Commission also came to the other unanimous conclusion that this deduction has reached an extreme limit in the city administration, the excess of which can no longer be attributed to a local authority. In this context, I would like to point out once again that the withdrawal of forces in recent years has now led to the state that urban civil servants and workers are mainly made up of older generations and that in many cases, soon more severe and soon lighter permanent diseases will not be able to guarantee full operational capacity. It is not to be overlooked that the personnel requirements of the Aemter dealing with war tasks are constantly increasing. I am thinking here above all of the price and pledge agenda and of the Iuftschutzamt, to which continuously new tasks grow.- In the law of constitution there was occasionally the deliberate re-constitution of the municipal commissions / councils/ of the dal for fundamental disputes, because the state authority in its decree denies the primator of the capital city of Prague the right to appoint local commissions out of its own perfection of power, although this right is clearly enshrined in the Prague municipal statute. The city's management was therefore obliged to take a well-founded return to the Ministry of the Interior against the decision of the state authority, because it is one of its most important tasks to maintain the self-government facilities in the sense of a centuries-old tradition unweaked. The issue of combating the risk of floods in the Gross-Prague area, which again became acute in the spring, was taken as an opportunity by the President of the Police in Prague to have this business assigned by the police authorities. 53234