English Translation

16-1 16a 2 - It should be noted to me that a corresponding design of the implementing regulation seems to me to be indispensable, even for serious factual reasons, because - as I have already had the opportunity to explain orally to your Excellency - the strong assertion of the above-mentioned point of the implementation regulation in a number of executive departments of the Protectorate administration may result in an almost complete paralysis of the activity of the latter. This would also apply, for example, to a branch of administration as important to the war economy as the railways are. At the same time, I would ask Your Excellency - if you no longer thought it necessary for the discussion to be held in this regard - to make the new version of the implementing regulation within the meaning of your position communicated to me, because I have - in order to act in the spirit of your intentions - given the order that the implementing rule, which the chairman of the regulation received from your Excell-ence yesterday, should not be made known to the protectorate bodies. o confession, which you have shown to my orally expressed request, thank you very much, I am with the expression of excellent respect to your most devoted e.g. E. Hácha His Excellency Mr. Reich Minister Konstantin Freiherrn von Neurath, Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, Prague