STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 594, sig. 109-4/341 Page 22 · 22 of 197
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 594, sig. 109-4/341
English Translation
18 - 2 - NS-Gauverlages Sudetenlanu whose director was Fiala, the start of service was not agreed until 1 April and then 1 July.Dr. Meissner himself insists on a rapid withdrawal from provisional trust, because he already announced in the first months of this year that he would undertake business abroad.In June this year, at his personal request, he was granted several weeks' leave for the liquidation of his affairs and for the preparation of his transfer by the publishing house.Meissner went to London in possession of a Reichsdeutsche passport after obtaining a visa by the English Consulate in Pressburg. As he then informed the Council, his return was delayed until he was unable to leave London for a long time without endangering his economic existence. Meissner is in a position to interrupt his journalistic Lauibahn and to engage in business abroad, as the press office does not know about it.Only a communication Dr. Meissners to his family,in which he gives personal and economic reasons for his change of office.Hungarian press organs and a Hungarian MP snneinen from ver- sicherlich sicneren sources to have proof that Dr. Meissner was an agent of a German-Indian espionage organization. Neither the Dentschen party's pressant, nor the "Border Messenger", can comment on this claim. There is no lack of relations with German-speaking Western European espianage organisations, and this organization has not informed us that Dr. We can, however, give these other more informed bodies a hint which would have been called upon to check the validity of their claim.Dr. Perdinand Meissner