STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2180, sig. 109-9/4

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rO CAENSTRE - 3 - it is already the necessary thing to be arranged and, accordingly, to expect an improvement of things.I am touching here just one point which I think it is essential to point out clearly. Because it is still so sharp that nothing is done if influences in the middle and lower offices actually prevent the realization of their contents. As long as these influences, which can be proved by countless individual cases, are not to be thought of in the first place an improvement of things.I lay upon you the absolute responsibility for creating change here, as far as the personnel side of the matter is concerned. In my view, it is necessary to ensure uniform management of the control services of the autonomous central authorities which have been in existence so far, but which do not require the necessary feeling, and which should be led by a special committee to be set up, which should form part of the Ministry of the Interior and which representative of the central authorities involved should be assigned. This regulation is necessary for fundamental reasons, because the Ministry of the Interior is under the authority of the authorities of political administration. If things really are to undergo a major improvement, these authorities and the executive apparatus that you are bringing together must form the backbone of all the measures to be taken. Moreover, the above committee would have to prepare all measures and lead them to the highest level, which aim at the common use of the state control bodies of all branches 78/to that end, procedural and criminal rules would also have to be uniformly aligned.Details may be reserved for discussions Np0 with a corresponding committee, which I formed with my authority. I would just like to point out that the penalties which these unclean elements are intended to impose must be substantially tightened.