English Translation

27 - 3 - Since last year he has been a German friend and uses his position as head of the Moravian regional group of the "Czech Association for Cooperation with the Germans". By the abbreviated. Mr Belcredi's arrest of a leading member of the NG Committee and the consequent postponement in the senior posts moved to the position of the third deputy of the Chairman of theNG Committee. In contrast to the two mentioned, the Minister of Agriculture Nikolaus Graf B u b n a - L i t i c should be regarded only as a pro-active representative of the political nobility, who has created a central community of interests in the "Czech nobility club". In January 1940, Prince Franz Schwarzenberg was appointed head of the NG youth and also occupied the post of Minister of Agriculture with Count Bubna-Litic, freed from the failure of the fled minister. Although he is a national-conscious Czech, he is considered to be politically less important. In the last government crisis triggered by the planned Yugoslavian intervention of the positive Czech journalists, this politically inter ested nobility group stepped out of its reserve and believed that it could exploit the unexplained situation to a further advance on the political platform. Their aim was to push forward the Minister of Agriculture Bubna-Litic in a possible replacement of the Prime Minister's post. In the course of the government crisis, he and his backmen tried to launch a press campaign against the government in order to achieve a reshuffle of the cabinet, and first went to the chief editor.