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

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63 Statement by the lawyer Dr. Kyjovski, Brno, in front of the District Court of Vienna On 9.cg _1/33 Vienna. In spring I927 he was asked by the Bulgarian prince Cyrill to represent him together with Dr. Barth in his case for inheritance in the Koburg Fideikommissare in Slovakia. - My main task was to conduct negotiations with the State Land Office in Prague and other Tehechic authorities. At that time, the question of who of the Koburgi princes is to take Fideikommiss in Slovakia caused many inconveniences and hardships to our government. There were so-called affairs with the G.Lex Cyrill, the affair with Norb. Eisler, the newspaper campaign of Dr. Jaroslav Stransky, from which on various sides attacks gogon some high state officials, even against ministers arose, fornor scandalous relations in the administration of the Koburg goods in Slovakia, where the rule of poor wood workers and peasant carriages is several million Cechokro- non suffragely issued, so that a few weeks after my consent to The right-wing revolution over the whole rule was imposed on the Bohördliche administration of the State-Bodenamtos and finally, at the beginning of the summer l927, - the Gonc-raldirktor dos Princes namons Nykl, allordings ohnc Wisson be- nos Chefs wanted to have a neuc affair, into which also the Ka- binottskanzlei of the president was drawn.- That was the reason that I cings Tagos was appointed either at the end of May or at the beginning of June 1927 - to cinor suppression at the ontspresidium of the Council of Ministers - and there I was informed, as the representative of Prince Cyrill, that the resolution at the various affairs of the Koburg already had enough and that it had decided to put an end to it, whether in good or in bad. - The way in goodness is this: