English Translation

Copy. Council of Ministers /Press Department/ Prague, 25 November 1939. Subject: Subsidisation of the "Vidensky Noviny" Vienna. Mr. Wolfgang Wolfram von Wolmar, imHau se . The Tagblatt of the Viennese Czech ethnic group the "Videnske Novinie" have in Febet d.g. The former Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the former Czechoslovak Republic asked for support in the form of a subscription to a larger number of copies. After the establishment of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, this part of the agenda of the former Ministry of Foreign Affairs was assigned, with the decision of the President, to the press department with the remark that the autonomous directorate of the protectorate was in principle granted the right to take care of the cultural life and the spiritual deviance of the Czech tribesmen living in the Reich. I ask for confirmation of this principled position in matters of spiritual relations between the Protectorate and the Czechs in the Reich, as well as for the decision whether it is appropriate to subscribe to 5O0 copies of the Tagblatt "Vidensky Noviny" from protectorate funds, which would then be made available to the written instructions of Czech daily and provincialüresse. I use this opportunity to conclude with the request to take the expression of my special respect. Dr.Ho fman e.h.