English Translation

122 - 2 - Right to the effect that Reichsminister Speer should be authorized to intervene directly in the economic conditions of the Protectorate. After statements by the military inspector in Prague, who told me about the last meeting of the arms inspectors and obscurators in Berlin, it seems to me that the military officer in Prague is being used for the immediate exercise of the extended responsibilities - and also for 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 prominently foreign region, but it is also a very significant extra-political 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 without profound political consequences. I have already heard voices, according to which the new regulation of economic responsibilities is critically examined for its compatibility with the autonomous thought 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 promises" in this example. Furthermore, the regulation taken stands in a not to be overlooked contrast to the establishment of the German State Ministry of Bohemia and