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- 5 - 111 and be personally convinced that the Pührer/in the face of the anti-rich attitude of a large part of the Czech people, also known to him, was not willing to comply with such a request. Mr Moravec then assured me once again that this decision was meant honestly and that he had already been authorised by the President to present it as an honest and thoughtful decision, but I asked him to take the question to the President. Mr Moravec still asked me to agree that tomorrow the chairman of the government could call the ministers for further consultation and decision-making, and told me that after the government meeting the chairman and he wanted to go again to the president of the state in Lana to inform them of the Government's decision that further steps could be taken by him in the spirit of today's discussion. I voted in favour of this proposal and asked once again for the most thorough consideration of the whole matter. fuam Prague, 26 January 1943.