English Translation

-6- re-examination of the acceptance. On the fat supply of the protectorate, Secretary of State Backe again drew attention to the serious situation in the fat provision of the whole empire. Should this result in an improvement in the course of the next months, the protectorate would of course be helped in the first Linte, first he sees only a necessity, that in addition to the deliveries of sugar to the Reich from the self-requirement of the protectorates still Zukereingespart, For compensation transactions of the Protectorate with foreign countries, especially in the south of the protectionate. The protectorate may try to negotiate the necessary fat for sugar itself here, but in such a way that the commercial contractual delivery obligations would not affect the foreign trade in fat to the Reich. According to the calculations of Berlin and Prague, 25 000 tonnes of sugar can be considered as a compensation product for this. This would allow for the purchase of 8-10 000 tonnes of fat needed in protectorate, particularly for Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria.