THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1459, sig. 109-4/1213

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OV - 6 - I have just received the submission of the Duchess to the Foreign Office, Berlin, Annex 75, Volume 3 of the annexes to the publication of l9.XII. 38, in which the Duchess makes two very concrete requests: a/ to allow her as a party in the proposed takeover contract, since she has a right to inherit the substance according to Hungarian rights; b) to fix a price corresponding to the real value of the possession of more than 1 200 million gold crowns, which is a billion ke. I declare herewith: "I do not remember this entry, it is possible that she has gone to the Land Office. As mentioned above, for us the Duchess was not a party, nor an heir". To the question what had become of all the movable property, which with the dohoda of 24.III. l928, I declare: "I have had nothing to do with this, neither in terms of control nor verification nor administration. This was only the case for the Ministerial Council Dr. Razim."On condition:"It is true that individual Latifundien- bositzers have received considerably higher prices by way of free agreement from the Land Office for the transfer of their goods than was predicated in the expropriation legislation, says the Count Fürstenberg, a Baron Leforet, among others. I cannot say whether the co-workers have received more than they were entitled to according to the expropriation table. I think almost yes. Botr. of the wealth levy, which was always fixed for the Coburgisches Bositz, finally even more than 75 million Ke with a total remuneration of about l3o million Ke., I explain: "I have nothing to do with the wealth yield. If it is held that these assets were even held in the amount of lo4 million ke. as "preliminary" at the conclusion of the purchase contract on the side of the land office against the purchasers in order to make them subject to the disposal of the property,