English Translation

64 - 7 - qualified garden architect whom we would like to commit as a decisive consultant for the redesign of the entire park and gardening for one to one and a half years. For this, he demanded an annual fee of L0.000 RM, as well as the travel costs of 2nd class and sleeping car Potsdam - Prague and back, and the additional costs, as far as they are available to him by way of arrival and departure, luggage and night, additionally a daily compensation for the travel and working day of RM.30.- . At least 36 days a year, to be available to the board and to the city authorities in Prague. Such fees are unacceptable to us with regard to the current financial situation of the city and I would be sorry if, for this reason, we were to be deprived of valuable German aid from the Old Reich. My aim so far was not only to enforce the narrower city administration and its companies with Germans, but also to have the financial institutions dependent on the city monitored by German forces. In this case, I succeeded in entering the Prague City Savings Bank three German officials, including Mr Graf as Deputy Director, a German official and a German direc- tive member,in the Prague Municipal Insurance Institute City Representative Ing. Winarsky then, as director, attorney MsT Dr.Künzl to the board of directors and to the Allgemeiner Prager Asse- kuranz A.G. Prok.Richter also to enforce as director. I am now still striving to place German candidates in one or other administrative committee of the above-mentioned institutes. In particular, in the Prague urban Sparkassa, where the former German member Miltiades Kotrba, an old Prague democrat chief, has just resigned his office at my urging. Through this planned all-round expansion, I believe, it will be possible in a relatively short time to occupy important ednd key positions of the city with Germans. In the area of the new buildings planned by the city for German purposes, a pleasing clarification has been made insofar as the German school inspector has handed over the programmes for the German new school buildings in Prague XVI and XIX. I hope that now by the Ministry of Labour and School the projects will be announced immediately 82r2