English Translation

273 - 3 - 1) I would like to point out to Razim that, on the basis of any personal relations with the President of the General Financial Directorate in Bratislava Brachtl, in order to keep my compulsory administration alive, I would not have paid the pre-determined asset levy in the first place, and when they wanted to pay it with a bond at the agricultural bank, this payment would be prevented by the fact that I initiated a further higher determination, until clearly the amount of more than 70 million. Kc., with indignation back. I have not taken care of the fixing of the wealth levy at all. I also did not have any friends in the financial directorate in Bratislava. The Anvurf des Razim is a common defamation. Asked how it comes that the wealth tax for the Coburgian possessions from slightly more than 2o million ke. to lo4 million kc. I declare that such an interest only had the Land Office, which had indicated - see the introduction of the preliminary remark in the land registers - that it would take possession of it in the course of the land reform. It was usus at the Office of the Boden that it was necessary to apply the tax and tax screw in dic- sical cases in such a way that the expropriator was then made so miirbe that he had to take up the offer of the bodon office or go out of the country with the bare staff of the dom, I also do not believe that the financial directorate in Bratislava has come from itself to this completely meaningful estimate of the wealth levy, if not from any decisive side a pressure had been exerted to make the Coburger gruesome. I suspect this pressure just behind the ground office and behind Razim, who, with his friend, the then Minister of Finance, let such an instruction go to Bratislava. I know that English has exerted such an influence in Bratislava, also in other respects, when, according to the financial director's opinion, completely justified taxes had to be paid. No one in the world was interested in increasing the wealth tax except the Land Office.