English Translation

Translation. 26 Office of Saaisfekre i:s To Mr. Reichsprotektor bem Re.chspeotekto Freiherrn von Neurath. in Bohemia and Moravia. Eing.: -4.FEB.1941 Your Excellency! Tgb. Mr.: Please excuse us for bothering you. There is no other way than to ask you to put an end to the mischief that is still taking place in the Protectorate in the ranks of the state officials, i.e. the legionaries, to this day. It is not enough that they have been receiving fat goods for 20 years for years of work, which were immediately credited to them as soon as they took up a post, that they still enjoy the same privileges and advantages even now, when Czechoslovakia has already ceased to exist,2 "aher. That is not just. We remember well that when you took up your position as Imperial Protector, you said that the legionaries would not enjoy any advantages, but everything remained with the old and the other loyal servants still have to stand behind the legionsaries. Almost every day we are called on on the radio to cooperate with the Germans. But how can this be achieved if, on the one hand, this mutual agreement is built and on the other hand everything from the ranks of the legionaries is never torn away again, in such a way that English news and mostly Beneš's speeches are distributed among the protectorate members? It is to be condemned that they still trust such a thing today. The worst is at the railway, at the post office and mainly at the tobacco industry, where many legionaries are gathered. In all tobacco factories legionnaires, to whom it is wrongly charged several years, are now even "under the protectorate of the empire" and the other workers must