English Translation

63 The Imperial Protector 6 March 1940. in Bohemia and Moravia Prague, the XV Rf.Yew0300 Nr. l Lord 5 Superior Councillor Dr. G i e s 5.a.d in the H a u s e. 000 out 18 Culaye. With reference to the letter of 24 February 1940 and to the handwritten comments of the Secretary of State on the letter from the Cultural Affairs Group of 24 January 1940, I would like to say that my group took all the necessary steps in December to get the censors working on the Brno and Moravian-Ostrava channels into a permanent employment relationship with effect from 1 January 1940. These efforts have also been repeated in January and February. In the meantime, this matter has also been settled The censorship officer Kurt Müller in Moravian-Ostrava, who is also working in permanent employment for a newspaper in Moravians Ostrau and who cannot therefore be permanently employed from here, has already received a fixed daily allowance from RM 5.50. Mr Müller agrees with this regulation. The fees were paid retroactively to Mr Müller with effect from November 39, and they will continue to be delivered to him on a monthly basis. Mr Smutnik, who is at the same time the broadcast director for the German broadcast of the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft in Brno and receives a fixed monthly salary from the RRG, also receives a daily allowance from RM 5.50 for his work as the principal censor of the Group of Cultural Affairs in Brno. Mr Smuthnik is in agreement with this regulation. The amounts have been transferred by Group Z with effect from 1 January l940. The censorship officers Franz Zubal, Gustav Nording and Elisa- beth Leschtinsky are to be employed as the censors in Prague in the framework of the TOA. They have found with effect of 1 January 40 -2- 0 0 \r}$ dhilfy