STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1998, sig. 109-7/5

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he Imperial Protector Prague, 7th Februar 1941- 107 World Cup Mun mon Iopn oAI copy Mr. prahep M2 Minister Dr. Joßef Havelka Manto pant 24 Prague M hrihMDear Minister! aun Hand migefele Mova, I have just presented the contents of your preliminary speech to the Lord Reichsprotector and have also submitted to him the version of the last sentence of paragraph I 4. The Lord Reichsprotektor has dismissed our fundamental considerations an authorization to the Protectorate= government to give the implementing instruction in your sense = changes hereus. It has to remain deshelb at the examination, which has escaped in the letter to the Prime Minister we4. Pebruer 1941. In doing so, Mr Reicheprotector felt that he personally had clearly pressured the President of the State and the Prime Minister of the Republic to the outside, that it was not planned from the outset, and that it is not planned to complete a total dismantling of the legionaries. This view of the Lord Reichsprotektor can also be readily taken from the version of his letter d d d . 18050