English Translation

14a The documents for the new regulation of salary in the autonomous service were prepared on the basis of the instructions of 27 July 1973, discussed with all departments of the German Ministry of State and submitted to the Minister of State on 9 September 1943. It was only at this point that the possibility of contacting the Reich's departments with details was given above all. The contact with the Reichsressorts was reserved for the Minister of State according to the instructions of 27 July. Thus, Jch was officially contacted for the first time with the Reich=Ministry of Finance at the beginning of November l943.- as a negotiation on other questions - in= after I had received the approval of the Ministry of Finance.In this unofficial consultation it was established that the Reich Ministry of Financial Affairs still wanted various documents for its examination. These documents were then worked out with the permission of the Minister of State. Jch, with the consent of the Ministry of Minister, had asked for the postponement of the posting of the responsible officers offered by the Ministry for Finance until the documents requested for the examination had been completed= and had been submitted after completion on 27 July. In the case of the secondment of the staff to Prague, the official was asked by telephone to send them to Prague. As a result, the delay I requested was quite expedient, since the preparatory work carried out in the meantime allowed the negotiations to be limited to one week with the representatives of the Reich's Ministry of Finance, whereas otherwise they would certainly have drawn on for a long time. JNXE