English Translation

43 Secret Reihslahe 1n T I addna Prague, 26 September 1941 I 1a - 1041 9 g.RS. 3.Executions l.Execution 1. ) Note: Subject: State-law regulation in the event of resignation of constitutional factors of the Protectorate while maintaining its full autonomy. On the basis of the law of the state in force, the following provisions result in the examination of all the possibilities of the President's resignation and of the representation of the protectorate: 1.) The President resigns - the Government remains in office. (a) The Protectorate Government shall adopt a decision according to which the former President of the Republic shall apply to the Government with regard to the determination of the nature. IV of the Erlas ses des Führers und Reichskanzlers über das Protectorat Böhmen und Mähren vom 16.3.1939 (* The head of the Protectorate requires for the exercise of his office of trust of the Führer and Reichskanzers") the new head, for the determination he has to submit to the Reichsprotektor a three-way proposal, from which the Reich's protector selects the personality, which seems most suitable to him. This provision was laid down in the handwritten letter of 27 September 1940 from the Lord's Reich Protector to the President (I 1 a- 773) in the event of a waiver in the words "that a corresponding regulation could still be found beforehand, for example of the Art. I paragraph 1 of the proposed draft (a decree of the President of the State)...". The exercise of the functions of the President shall be the responsibility of the Government, which may entrust individual acts to its Chairman.