English Translation

8L - 2 - to the company Schowanek and the entire wood-pearl industry has been added by the theft of Schwanek's fims and machines by the current Czech co-partners of the company Drabek. As I said in my oral presentation, the Czech partners of the Drabek company were prepared to sell all the shares in the last negotiations, taking into account the proposals that have been announced to you, Mr. Secretary of State, on the occasion of an intervention by the Czech Minister of Commerce, Dr. Kratochvil, he has explained to the Czech partners that they only had to sell up to 5% to the company Schowanek and to Mr. Schowanec if they agreed to the "supervision" of Mr. Showanek on an equal footing. A protocol on these negotiations of the Czech gentlemen with Mr. Handelsminister Dr. Kratochvil is in the files of Dr. Beck, the government councillor, who deals with Drabek-Schowanek. On the basis of the statements of the minister Dr. Kratokvil, the Czech partners have now abandoned the original intention of the total sale and have offered only the originally agreed 51% to my client. The offer has been accepted by Mr. Schowanek under the same requirement that the Office of the Lord's Imperial Protector gives an "a u t e n t i s c h e n - terpretation of the term ob er ra ufsic".