STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1988, sig. 109-6/80

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12 poorly oriented, since several months ago a meeting had already taken place in Reichenberg, at the initiative of the Reich Ministry of Economic Affairs, on the cartel associations, in which the peace-keeping consular wishes of the Imperial Ministry of Economics had been accepted. This was also laid down in writing and it would proceed to the i-point exactly as the Reichswirtschaftsminister would wish. However, in order to reassure him completely, the standstill commissioner would not be able to state that he had nothing to object to if the cartel associations were to be removed from his jurisdiction, since he had no interest in its implementation. The undersecretary of State of B u r g s - d o r f said that the standstill commissioner was really great, and then there was talk about the rejection of the foundations, with undersecretaries of State. vòn B ur.gs - do r f declared that it was natural that the provisional share of the foundation had to be counted out and that these funds belonged to the Sud@tenland. The undersigned developed the settlement originally intended by the standstill insurance company for the people German, but which is now missing. Under-Secretary of State of B u r g s d o r f was very enthusiastic about this proposal, while Mr Landrat Fu c h s said that in all circumstances it was necessary to maintain utraquist foundations in the Protectorate, since only such methods could be used. Mr Landrat F u h s, moreover, was not in any way in favour of the work of the standstill commissioner and stated that all these things had to be done by the Reichstag