English Translation

-- Of course, the Land Office made its proposals to the Committee, as on the other hand, innumerable independent initiatives were taken from among the members of the Committee and, as well as from the public or through Parliament, they approached the Committee. I would like to state on my position that, as President of the Land Office, I was only responsible to the Council of Ministers, that is to say, not under the minimum of agriculture. For me, the Prime Minister was only the representative of the Council. I reported to him, he gave me instructions. It has naturally also happened many times that I have received instructions or requests from the Prime Minister or from some gentlemen, who have covered these or those matters of land reform. If they came from the prime minister, they were binding orders for me. The Coburg-Kohary affair in the course of a takeover of this property, I believe that I had heard for the first time only a few months before the transfer agreement in mid-March 1 928. I remember that in the Council of Ministers the desire to liquidate the Coburg case, i.e. to antoign possessions - or say vir better by single parliamentary members. As a justification, I was told that there are scandalous claims in the Bositz, arboiter wages bliabe one guilty, it would even have been necessary to have a long-term foreclosure, because one had failed to pay the taxes and levies. In addition, the heirs quarrelled with each other about whom the property is due, the matter is a public annoyance, I don't know what caused it to happen, anyway I will have given the individual head of department orders to make preparations for the implementation of the agricultural reform. I remember that one day representatives of Prince Philip Josias from Vienna or Prague came to me and suggested that I agree on the right path for taking over the goods to a reasonable proise. I believe first of all that I have been negotiating with the Herron in the direction of