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150 3.) Just too intolerable - but the attempt of the Transport Group on purely internal questions of the post office, when in August 1 940 the *eneral director of the postal office in Prague, Ing. St r n a d , had died. In a letter to Division I of the Reichsprotektor's office, which was also sent to the Post Group in a copy, the group leader called for transport to be involved in the appointment of the new Director General of the Post Office, as this question concerned the responsibility of the Minister of Transport, to whom the Director of the Heneral is also subject to the post office. There is no need to lose a word about the factual side of this matter, but the fact that such a step is possible over the top must be recorded. 4.)When the Prague of the occupation of the Director-General=posten der Post by a German was discussed, the head of the Transport Group was appointed by the Under-Secretary of State to examine whether a suitable solution for the transport sector would be sought. In the later discussions between the head of the Transport Group, who had been entrusted with the management of the Department of Transport, and the Head of the Post Group, however, it turned out that the Transport Division did not intend to pursue a parallel development in the rail sector, but rather the redesign of rail and mail within the meaning of the Government = Ordinance of 20.1.19919, albeit with formal maintenance of the separation. The new companies are to form independent legal persons with their head office in Prague, who are to administer postal and rail services in a fiduciary manner; the sovereignty matters for postal and railway services are to be handled by the Minister of Transport; the public service of a large number of staff is to be transformed into a private body2 the bodies of the enterprises are to consist of a Management Committee and a Director-General. Against dengiPlan, to occupy the Director-General's post of the Pro= tektoratspost with a German Peamten, which would hinder this development, the department head naturally made sharp resistance, this is shown above all in the chosen tactic, the occupation of each= if