English Translation

23 11 August 1939. The Secretary of State. XVPIVa2a To the Reichsminister für Volksaufklärung und Propaganda Herr Dr. Goeb bels, BerlinW8 Wilhelmplatz 8 - 9 . Very venerable Minister of the Reich ! I refer to your letter from 1 July 1939 - Az. H ll63/2l.6.39, with which you had agreed to provide an amount of RM 500,000.- for the foundation of the sheet "The New Day", Bohemian-Mährische Verlags- und Druckerei-Gesellschaft m.b.H., Prag, from own budget. By letter dated 7.8.1939, the publisher's management of the sheet stated that it initially required 50,000.-- to pay a share of the purchase price to Mercyverlag until 1 September l939 RM. Furthermore, the publishers' management announced that it had made payments in the total amount of RM 45o.oo.- by means of bank loans up to the date of the sale price. The management of the store asks her to make the amount of RM 450,000.- available until the end of September 1939. The payments are requested on the account of the "Bohemian-Mährische Verlags-Druckerei-Gesellschaft m.b.H." at the "Kreditanstalt der Deutschen", Prag. Heil Hitler Ih 2.)Wvl. after leaving me for the lecture at the Herr Reichsprotektor. 24. 8.