English Translation

18 - 5 - book states, as it has really happened, that the place of residence of the two princes Philipp-Josias and Cyrill was sold to the Czech State on 24 March 1928, while one still confesses that he was not entitled to any kind of rights in respect of the substance just sold, I declare: Who caused this entry into the land registers, I do not know. I have to correct myself now, because we initiated this entry from the Land Office, and I note that the Land Authority was not obliged to send the contract work of 24.3.1928 to the basic acts. It sufficed to state that the State had become the owner of the property on the basis of the takeover notes of the year 1 919. On condition that I was aware of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Brno of 14.III.1928 on 24.VIII.19 28, the conclusion of the contract, I declare: yes to the tenor. I did not yet know the reasons. Even this judgment could not prevent me from carefully having Prince Cyrill appear as a contractual partner. When I asked why my caution had not gone so far, the Noterbin, dic Duchess zu Holstein, had also to go to these sales negotiations, because only then had al- le agreed with the undivided heir community, I explained: this did not seem necessary to me, since I considered the noterbin according to Austrian law only as a claimant against the co-heirs. On condition that one cannot even apply Austrian inheritance law in the matter of Coburg-Kohary, on the other hand, Hungarian inheritance law again, I declare: I was of the opinion that, even according to Hungarian law, the noterbine would not be entitled to a dire claim against the substance. On condition that the guarantee order of the post-lance court Bratislava is contrary to this, I declare: I did not see this guarantee order for the inheritance claims of the Duchess on the substance. In any case, I do not remember it.