English Translation

69 - 2 - Decision of the Lord Reichsmarschall to receive personally about the manner of the use of Schmidt at the Witkowitzer Eisenwerken. We shall now proceed to the vote on the motion for a resolution tabled by the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and Industrial Policy on the proposal from the Commission of the European Communities to the Council (Doc. I was unable to comply with the time limit indicated for this. You did not even wait for this time limit, as I took from the telex of the personal speaker of the Reichsmarschall, but brought the matter before the Reichesmarschal. I still think that Dr.Schmidt's appointment as the manager of the financial assets is at least missing in so far as the powers of the trade union board are to be granted. The Minister of Finance has in the meantime strongly objected to this, as you know. The Reichskommissar for the treatment of hostile assets has accordingly declared that he cannot ignore this objection. The thoughts you have ever known about the personality of Schmidt have been strengthened by the development of the general situation. His involvement in a politically vulnerable area such as Moravian-Ostrava could only be considered under the prevailing circumstances, if Mr Reichsmarsch personally shares with me the kind of desired, in-your wish "to bring Witkowitz to the necessary level of armaments", and of course I will promote everything that is necessary to this end.