STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 463, sig. 109-4/208

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13a Italy must now assume the obligation to limit the cultural and linguistic activities of the institute to the Reichsdeutschen in Frag. On the Italian side, a written fixation of the agreement with this regulation was envisaged. On 1 October 194, the Federal Foreign Office's clerk asked whether the Czechs could be regarded as Reichsdeutsche in a broader sense and be admitted and treated as such by the Ital. Cultural Institute. This was denied, and Mr Caruso said that "there is not much left for the Institute to do", especially since he was told that the Czechs who had been enlisted for the coming winter semester had to be rejected. After his return to Prague, the Consul General promised to leave the necessary things in this sense. Finally, Mr Caruso asked whether it would not be possible to continue with the previous subsidies from the Protectorate Government for the Cultural Institute. The Federal Foreign Office has also denied this question without the attempt of Mr Caruso to establish a legal obligation to these payments, since the cultural propaganda of a state cannot be financed by the host country.- Consul General Carusos planned a reconstruction of the Italian orphanage in order to build the institute, the organisations of the Fascio et al. The restructuring should be carried out at the expense of the protectorate government. It can be assumed that he will come back to this matter again. He may also, despite repeated requests from Ablehnu, once again request that the present curator of the museum be paid a salary from the Protectorate Fund (which is also the head of the Allighieri Society in Brno) like his predecessor. In any event, all Mr Caruso's requests concerning the Italian cultural positions until the conclusion of the discussions between the German Embassy in Rome and the Ital will be rejected. In the course of negotiations there is only an agreement to regulate the legal relations of the Museum of Italian Patriots on the Spielberg. Since still in consultation with the Wehrmacht authorized representative and the group I't ll a visiting and use regulations, 5901 the