English Translation

72 3./ As long as the creation of the preferential shares is not yet possible, Stoupal agrees that any decision to be taken by any of its companies is previously approved by the Office of the Lord Reichsprotector. Thus, the submission of the "Stoupal Group" would in fact be carried out under the control of the office of the lord Reichsprotected. The fact that the preservation of the "Stoupal Group" with its character of cooperative self-help is necessary has been explained in detail in the report. For reasons of expediency and prudence, after the complete submission of Stou-pal, the reintroduction into his positions is also required. It has not been proven that Stoupal allowed himself to be indebted to things that would make this impossible. I have, on the contrary, gained the impression that the driving force of his actions were only partly selfish motives, that rather the thought of helping his Moravian farmers influenced him to the strongest degree. The fact that he also operated all his measures from the point of view of strengthening his party, namely the agricultural party, does not need to exclude the reinstatement into his bodies under the present conditions. Nor does any damage to German interests in the past go beyond the normal level inevitable in the case of land reform. . The measures currently being taken against Stoupal and his first employees seem to have played along with the selfish motives of a number of interested persons. I would like to make a few orally announcements about this. Stoupals' re-establishment would require that the now existing compulsory administration be abolished. İch does not consider the current coercive administrator, Rosa-Alscher, to be able to lead the extremely difficult organisational work in the "Štoupal-Konzern". In addition, he has unfortunately obtained, in full recognition of his duties and his position, a contract of employment as Director-General, in which he approved himself as K 380.000.- per year without any renumerations. This measure of the coercive administrator in his favour - 3 --