STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1871, sig. 109-5/99

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72 BLILEng C.mararo bileopoehoe uau- Eing 18. AUG. 1942 THE PRIMATOR-STELL REPRESENTATIVE Mr. THE MAIN CITY PRAG. State Secretary, Karl Hermann Fr a n k G.Z.1011/42. B Prague T IV auared ledeladnA menCzerninpalais.rotam ni stled reroaldoed Idow Beeb.et" T NEE tdeladA aeb.bma TON LGA TOATRA the Very esteemed Mr. Secretary of State - IoT Ped After a long time I allow myself to pay your attention to 2 incidents in the Prague city tour the . Last Friday, Primator Riha considered it appropriate to postpone a substantial proposal by the city chamberlain Dr.Heller for the consultation of primators. It is 8d. for K 142.000.000.- liquid funds- NO they sit down to K ll7.000.000. - out of surplus of the previous year and to K 25.000.000..- from disponible liquid funds - to buy 3 % Reichschatzanweisungen, as we had already done on previous occasion with available K 80.00.000. It was interesting to hear what the Primator had objected to in the most general sense of the word: a rich buying-in campaign, 6390 Tebe. He asked whether we would rather buy local T00 paper, such as protectorate bonds, and whether nob these available funds could not be used more to reduce the higher municipal levies. For this purpose, the Primator asked the City Chamberlain for a written review of the existing reserves.All these objections were supported by the one basic desire to retain the funds available in the country at the moment and in REOEGCUONO Aeor St. S.TF-7 a/41.