English Translation

-10- on 20.12.1941 the following letter from the President Dr. Hacha: "Your Excellency, Mr. Reichsprotektor! With regard to our last discussion, I have the honour to amend my letter of 19.d.M., T.T.386/41- which, in part, contradicts your communications and has merely been handled by mistake, so that I do not propose to the chairman of the National Trade Union Centre of Workers, Wenceslas Stoces, for the management of the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labour, but to your request, according to Dr. Walter Bertsch, who is appointed as a minister in a commissary capacity to the government. - With the assurance of my distinguished respect to Dr. E. Hácha President. "With this in the top the full reorga- nization of the government with the disempowerment of the Council of Ministers and of the Prime Minister and with impressions of a German minister - always fixed in writing by invitations of the President - is carried out in the broad guidelines. For a longer time, the systematic occupation of the key positions in the ministries in the form of sectional divisions by officials of the Reich's protector to be reduced to the leadership apparatus, so that this measure cannot be regarded as an overall measure endangering autonomy. It can be solved - as the experience has shown so far - without recourse to the President of the Republic with the new specialist ministers (five ministerial posts are filled with new, the Reich taken ministers). After this work is completed, the reorganization of the central authority and the level of the Upper Land Councils and District Main Teams is started. In conclusion, the further orientation and periodically corps-like summary of the German civil servants' apparatus is necessary and