English Translation

The Weheiakhthevol'mighted at the Reic Rtor in Bohemia and Moravia. Secret. Prague, 20. 11. 1939 38513904 Sh Ab c. 3424/39 9f. - 1 Anlage - Somfon lin: \x/n Dear Secretary of State ! Although I assume that you are heavily burdened with urgent business, I would like to comment on your letter from l3. ll following our submission at the Reichskanzlei. To sum up again : On the basis of the previous guidelines of the Führer of 31 March, which General Oberst K e i t e l on l6. ll. confirmed to me again, I was of the opinion that an official invitation of the Czech Association for cooperation with the Germans should not be ignored. I was absolutely involved in the matter as a Wehrmacht representative and military advisor to the Reich Protector, especially since the association had shown itself to the Wehrmascht several times particularly German-friendly and practically helpful. The formal shortcomings of the invitation with the "and the well-born" have made me feel all the less, once because I did not know their other interpretation at all and one cannot at all assume that an association whose purpose is to cooperate between Germans and Czechs wants to be sorry for this in an official invitation to German authorities. On the news that you are against sending official representatives, I have made my objections and asked Mr. Envoy Völkers to speak with you, and my group leader I c received a telephone message. I must strongly object to this communication, which, without giving any further reasons, reduced my position in its last sentence in a way that could not be accepted.