English Translation

41 - 7 - to point out that the halving of prices does not in any way take into account the proportion of Germans in Prague. In other words, the Czechs were disadvantaged. In response, I made it clear in writing to Riha that the period of democratic-liberal counting methods was finally over and that the competition was open not only to all Czechs, but also to all Germans, so that in applying its counting method the ratio of 90 million Germans to 7 & million Czechs would arise. The cultural prizes have now been distributed and published. German cultural prize winners were Dr.Erich Bachmann, Dr.Franz Hauptmann, Prof.Franza Langer and Dr.Rudolf Slavitschek. This has also been a new feature in this front piece. I was able to stop an attempt to abuse the Weinberger municipal theatre as a national-Czech tribute to the capital Prague as part of a benefit performance of the actors there. It was about nothing else but to prepare an apotheosis for Czech Prague on the basis of a Czech-chauvinist book published before the Second World War. Finally, the negotiations with the Czechs on the diversion of a certain subsidy amount for the German theatre and the German philharmonic orchestra have progressed so that the Czech people agreed to revise the contract on the Weinberger Stadttheater, which was valid until 1944, with regard to the subsidy amount to be paid by the city, and also to reduce the subsidy level for the Czech Philharmonic. I hope that for German cultural and artistic purposes