English Translation

For many months now, Peraonen, who are close to the circles of the Land Office, had heard in an insinuation= wisely that the Bohemian-Moravian nobility, which had participated in the Benes address, would take sharp measures against it. The regulation under consideration does not provide a legal basis for the measures taken. (a) Obviously, at least in the first series of economic considerations, the adoption of the Regulation was relevant; in so far as the attempt was made to justify the imposition of compulsory administration by purely economic moments, this would be in contradiction with the facts. Most of the enterprises under compulsory administration are economically perfectly well managed and well managed. If it is now possible to claim that there are shortcomings in the management of the economy on the part of the bodies of the land=officially, these may be at most deficiencies which can be found as well as in any agricultural and forestry holding, but which are of such a nature that there is no cause for official intervention, even more so in favour of such an incisive measure as force management/see remarks in point IV./It can only be the effects of the crisis years and the land reform that have not yet been completely eliminated. However, apart from this, it must be doubted that a coercive manager, who has a large number of operations to look after, is able to take care of the individual operation as intensively as the owner and manager is already doing in their own interests and it is therefore hard to assume that there will be