STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 537, sig. 109-4/284

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No II/2 - 1134/1 Prague, 2a 2.) Draft. X To the Ministry of Finance in P r a g Subject: Financial dispute over the assets and debts of the Bohemian, Moravian and Silesian State Cultural Council. Reference: Meeting of 24-25 September 1941 In the meeting of 24/25 September 1941, your representatives agreed to the proposals of the Ministry of Agriculture only with the reservation that the general agreement on the dispute between the Reich and the Protectorate did not contain provisions contrary to the proposed regulation. The agreement has meanwhile been signed and published with the decree of 2 April 1942, RGBL.II.S.195, VBlRprot of 1942, p.99. As follows from its section V No. 13, special regulations - earlier as well as later - remain unaffected and proceed to the general agreement, so that the aforementioned reservation has now become undistorted. I would therefore ask you to confirm that you have now waived your reservation. - S78 3.) To Mr 98537 Central Councillor O. O r t 1 in Prague Czech National Cultural Council. Subject: as to 2.) As annex, I send you a letter from the Minister of Food and Agriculture dated 3 June 1942 to the