GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 579, sig. 110-4/427

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M7 -2- F5-5pecr right that the Minister of the Reich Speer should be authorized to intervene directly in the economic situation at Hernckawg of the Protectorate. Mr Prag, who told me about the last meeting of the arms inspectors and observers in Berlin, seems to have continued to remember that the armaments inspector Prag is being used for the immediate exercise of the extended powers - and was also against the protectorate bodies. I think this development is extremely worrying and I do not wish to fail to draw attention once again to the following points: the autonomy of the Protectorate, the European Parliament. In terms of internal policy, it has proved to be an effective instrument for the management of a prominent foreign-country area, but it is also a very significant foreign-policy factor. It is mainly in the cultural and economic sphere. In the course of the war, economic self-government is naturally at the forefront of public interest. A fall in this core area of autonomy cannot remain profound political consequences. I have already heard voices, according to which the new regulation of economic responsibilities on their compatibility with the autonomous thought is critically examined and the practical implementation is viewed with great tension. I am convinced that in the near future the whisper propaganda of the subject will take possession of it and will try, in a well-known way, to explain the "low value of German S.a balkan promises" on this example. Schaifuor The regulation taken is also in a counter-sat which cannot be overlooked to the establishment of the German State Ministry of Bohemia and