STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1459, sig. 109-4/1213 Page 34 · 34 of 156
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1459, sig. 109-4/1213
English Translation
33 - 5 - which Vich dio fresh grass scar otherwise left. Forest, especially in older populations and on steep slopes, was of course completely unsuitable for this. The appearance of one of the politically insecure times was determined by the Coburgers, at the beginning of January l923 - I am told that there is a contract in this respect of 7 January 1923 - 6000 hectares of arable land suitable for pastures and forest soils for less-favoured communities by way of the transfer to the Aekerbauministerium; which was then led by Minister Hodza, to üborlasson for sale, at a very minimal price, which was almost equivalent to a transfer without any equivalent value. In my memory, the Ministry of Agriculture assured Coburg that it would then be excluded from the land reform legislation with the remaining property. The municipalities and their boards have now been brought by both the communist and a number of mostly Jewish timber traders through bribery, getting there, not to select suitable pastures, but to raise the demand for the disposal of forest stocks of the best quality. Above all, it chose such forest areas, which were close to the roads to be taken off, rinks to be used - or rather ice rink - because this, of course, had an enormous effect on wood prices during deforestation.The Agriculture Minister sent a commission to the Coburg holding, which should finally determine the areas to be left over. It seems that this Commission has been won over for the many wrongful wishes of the municipality and must also have obtained permission from the Minister of Agriculture, Hodza, to grant his approval. When the heirs of Coburg came to this, they went against it, but did not reach Hodza any more than that they were promised, according to my memory, that they would agree late on the equivalent of the wood cut off with the heir. Diose agreement has never been reached. Things 'have then continued to take place on the Coburg property as follows; a whole hordo of Jewish timber merchants T c a a bribe to the Gemoindo executives the use of wood for a