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0f - 2 - and that she then remained over there within the framework of her artistic obligations. Only recently, the responsible senior official of the German Embassy in Washington, who has just returned from America, stressed that Mrs Novotna is politically completely restrained and confined to singing in the opera with enormous applause. It is clear from this fact that the majority of the property is held in Bohemia, while only Mr Georg von Deubeek is currently not in the country. After I was told about 1⁄4 year ago in Prague that there was no reason to allow a change to occur in the current state of affairs, I now hear that the seizure of property is being considered. I now believe - and this is the purpose of my letter to you - that the above-mentioned expert opinion on ownership would make such a measure legal. Apart from that, there will be an interest in keeping the great singer, Jermila No votna, as part of the cultural circle of the continent ruled by the Great German Empire, where she has lived up to now, and not by taking her husband's share of possession prematurely to take away the otherwise understandable and apparently intended incentive to come back, but on the contrary to make the return impossible. On the other hand, this page will have to be treated with caution, since the same gentleman of the German Embassy has been reported, as he likes to, but at the same time as wrong, the American press is seeking to call on individual personalities for an anti-German attitude. I would therefore like to ask, among the above mentioned above, that the matter be treated favourably and that it be withdrawn from further stricter measures. I have, in my capacity as a lawyer, at the present time deprived myself of all the possibilities of having a Czech foundation.