STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1902, sig. 109-5/130

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English Translation

119 returned to the well-known secrecy of state officials as absurd. The conversation concludes with the assurance that Dr. Gies v.Popelka will call today. J.bchumio. Addition: When I passed on the corridor, I meant v.Popelka that he could have spared the debate he had just had if he had asked me personally beforehand whether a written agreement was appropriate in the present case. v.Popelka assures me that the President of the Republic will not be affected by the statement by the Secretary of State, and that he (v.Poppelka) would ask me to take the debate merely as the question I have suggested, in which form the President may communicate his decision to the State Secretary.