STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1785, sig. 109-5/13 Page 29 · 29 of 94
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1785, sig. 109-5/13
English Translation
" 23 - 80 solution to this daily burning question could only be approached after detailed observation and after prolonged experience, because there were theoretically two solutions, which at first sight both have their justification, the one being that the focus is shifted more and more to the rich' own administration and that equally with the aim of a gradual dissolution of the autism of the Czech administration apparatus of its responsibilities deprived and by radical removal of civil servants is made unfit for work and smashed, the predominantly anti-rich attitude in particular of the czech intelligence made a further maintenance of the auton•mie also less and less justified. The other solution could be that the Germans in this area were primarily not to be administered, but to govern, and that it was therefore sufficient to occupy the decision-making post in the autonomous Czech administration by Germans, according to which a gradual dismantling of the rich's own administration could take place, so that at the same time direct supervision could also be significantly reduced to the internal functioning of the autonomous administration. Although I would also like to refer to the second solution, which is now being implemented as the much happier one - not only because we are saving people and because it is not possible for Czech officials in this area for a long time to be deprived of it, but also because it would be desirable for the Czechs to be drawn to the greatest extent possible for their affairs to be organised under their own responsibility, s• it must be noted that both paths were in themselves feasible. After all, every solution has its own pros and cons, but one thing was clear: there could only be an either-or, because both ways at the same time must lead, besides the waste of German people, also to a siah of increasingly difficult double processing and over-compensation. - 24