English Translation

31 - 3 - has, in an order, to have the rights of the benefactor in reciprocity, decreed that a note be entered in the land registers of possession. To secure the restitution of the duchess, I declare: I did not know this decree of the Bratislava estate court until about the previous year. Only then did I learn about it, as well as the fact that this backup entry did not actually occur in the land registers. I don't know why this did not happen. On condition that in the land register in Revuca it has been established that this order has been lying somewhere for 4 years before it found its way to Revuca, and that for purely formal legal reasons the Richter had to refuse the duchess' security registration and also refused, because inzwi- chen the State Land Office had registered the Czechoslovak state as owner in the ground registers, I explain: I only had all this before approx. 1 year from the Chief Financial Officer Dr. Zuber. I strongly deny that I had ordered the Duchess to have sent her to Revuca only after registration had become impossible. I also did not take any such steps at the Court of Succession in Bratislava. I think it is absolutely a serious offence of the measured persons at the estate court in Pressburg or of those persons who, because of their own motion, were responsible for this transfer, that this security order did not reach the land registry office and was carried out by post. Mrs Duchess would have had to be heard at every stage of the whole process of dealing with the question of Coburg-Kohary, if she had given her consent at any given time. Thus, she became a quantité négligeable, lost all influence and was not asked. I already felt it was a serious wrong at that time, what was done to the woman. As a reason for the miserable treatment, I can only imagine that the predominantly Jewish lawyers of the Prince Philip