English Translation

It is essential that accommodating the clearing difficulties should be shown - at the moment the payment deadline is already 13 - l4 weeks - and the representative of the Foreign Office confirmed this need. Landfried underscored these remarks and explained that, with all understanding of the economic and political interests of the Protectorate, it was in the war economic interest of the Empire and politically necessary to meet Slovakia's wishes. The representatives of the Reichsprotektor explained that, in view of this situation in Prague, one would not want to close itself to the urgent requirements of the Empire. However, it was assumed that the Slovak wishes would only be met insofar as it did not violate economic policy interests. It is certainly also very necessary from the point of view of the Reich - to have influence on the war-important enterprises in Slovakia, in particular on their production and their sales. Therefore, a levy can only be considered for participations in such enterprises, where there is no interest in the war economy and economic policy, that is, for example. In other cases, no more than a Slovak minority participation could be considered. These principles were explicitly recognised by the Reichswirtschaftsministerium. It was proposed that the individual requests made by the Slovaks should be dealt with accordingly. The representatives of the Reichsprotektor agreed to a decision soon. nwais 22165