English Translation

16a The purchase of the cigars for the amount of RM 1.2O was due to a service visit of the Lt-Gen. Speich in my department.However, I would like to take note of this, as this amount is refunded on its own account.On this occasion, funds amounting to RM 600.-- may have been understood as meaning that the necessary expenses for certain expenses incurred by a Supreme Reich Authority can be fed.That these expenses have nevertheless moved within the most modest framework, I ask to recognize on the basis of the attached specific account. In the meantime, the signature has been requested on document 40. As far as the remark is concerned, that the evidence must be provided by an official who is entitled to be identified with the authority to determine the facts, it may be noted on my part that the implementation should not fall within my field of responsibility, especially since no official who would have been authorised to establish it has yet been assigned to the team. The last paragraph of the letter of 29.4. I would like to point out that the working party of the Cultural Policy Group is responsible for the management and management of the press, as well as for the censorship of the Czech press apparatus in the volume of about 800 Czech newspapers and magazines.In addition, as the head of the working group, I am responsible for supervising the Czech Press Section of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, Czech censors, the news service of Czech channel Prague I, the censure office for the import of foreign printed material, the supervision of the Czechoslovakian Orbis publishing house, the oversight of the Centropress agency and the supervision over the correspondence "Česká Korrespon- dente". The CPB and the press section of the Bureau of the Council of Ministers alone employ around 1 500 officials and employees as well as workers. I would ask you, from this extensive field of work, that there is the greatest daily responsibility with regard to the external evaluation of any protectorate news, taking into account that this task must be performed by 5 employees and 2 typists, to see that it cannot be my job to arrange for the prescribed size of l/4 sheets to be obtained from here.