English Translation

2 93 - 2 You are also aware that for these reasons - especially because the countries of Bohemia and Moravia are unable to supply themselves from their own stocks - d& Reich has repeatedly entered with considerable amounts helping. You are also aware that the Czech whisper propaganda claims the opposite of these facts, in the interest of the enemies of the Reich it makes a political group and promotes dark machinations, such as cheating, sabotage, etc. However, you are also aware that -Se Td a the protectorate government has repeatedly made aware of the need for an energetic fight against all the unsustainable and damaging abuses in economic life, which have their origin in the shortage of food and supplies due to the war conditions or in public management. I now ask you, gentlemen, as the responsible ministers and heads of the main departments concerned: what has the Protectorate Government done so far to abate the untenable abuses? Have the individual measures you have/always only initiated on German pressure, for example for the complete recording of the rationed food stocks or for the suppression of the creeping trade, produced a tangible result? No! The slippery trade continues unabated. The irreparable conditions of buying and selling under the hand have increased rather than decreased. The high punishments at my instigation did not produce the expected success, because the punishment was immediately political - 3 -