English Translation

- 8 - 9 of the Czech government. The preliminary discussions on this matter had already begun on 29 November with the Deputy Chairman of the Czech Protectorate Government, Minister Krejči. He discussed the need for a summary of a number of ministries, the dissolution of the Ministrerspresidium, the end of the function of Prime Minister and his replacement in the form of a Chairman, as well as the need to summarise all economic problems in a Ministry of Economy and Labour under a German Minister. Furthermore, it was made clear to him that in the future the transport of the Reichsprotector would go directly to the ministers of the subject matter and that the Reichspretector would not tolerate the Council of Ministers, as before, voting on an instruction of the Imperial Protector, but that only a College of Ressortministers could talk about the practical and technical implementation of these instructions. When the question of autonomy was raised very carefully in the context of a staff redeployment of Minister Krejči, the problem of autonomy had been discussed very openly. State Secretary Frank argued here that the autonomy of the protectorate was given. When the minister replied, in his opinion, to the Czech people, I was told that this term "Czech" was rather unclear, because Mr Minister's beautiful blue eyes were certainly not purely Czech. If he looked at his ancestors, he would certainly find a number of German ancestors. Then the chairman of the Czech government collapsed and had to confess that his mother-in-law was a German.