English Translation

-.2 - planning for the Great German Reich and the most populated areas in advance to obtain the consent. Against this agreement, which I, as such, also informed Reichominister Dr. Lammers, which is to be considered in conclusion, the proposal made in your letter of the 2.3rd d.ds. is a completely new situation. The implementation of paragraph 3 of the proposed decree would have the effect of conferring entitlement on the Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour. In contrast to the agreement reached with you, a direct order would therefore be opened not only by you through the Commissioner to the Minister for Economic Affairs and Labour, but also by a minister of the autonomous government, who would be clearly placed under your authority. The fact that the general political and economic situation in the Protectorate, for which I am solely responsible, would be the most sensitive of all, is obvious. I also cannot see why the agreement reached at that time should be abandoned, and it has proved its worth so far. If your new proposal were to be followed up, such confusion would soon have to occur in the course of administrative operations, and one hand would not know what the other is doing. The strength of the pro- tectorate's democratic power and the indefatigable achievements of this area are precisely due to the fact that it is not ruled by various parties but by a body quo - and it was by a position which can claim for itself that it has a political control over the country and therefore only knows what measures are reasonably acceptable and practical. I do not understand why, in the fifth year of the war,