English Translation

4a - 2 - about a government meeting held on 16.ll.42, at which Minister Bertsch was prevented from attending by a meeting and in which, therefore, the members seem to be quite openly speaking: "The mood of this ministar meeting was excited and nervous.Minister H. r u b ý began to present various serious points as the first. In Bohemia a whole series of villages would be evacuated Furthermore, land seizures would also follow partly for the purpose of settling German farmers from Bessarabia and sllatirol. The Czech farmers in the remote villages as well as far beyond had been put into an almost panic-like mood?. In addition, above all, the farmers from bessaribiei. who know only extensive soil management, are not able to cope with the local conditions and have shown an anti-Central European tone in all their behaviour. He heard of various Czech farmers who asked that they be allowed to keep their farm; the farmers of the people of Germany could be subdued and supplied with ease. This is probably due to the fact that a number of South Tyroleans had told the Czech farmers themselves that there was no reason at all for them to leave their farms, which, after the end of the war, they would certainly return to Tyrol. Ministers Mr Hr u b ý and Mr K a 1 f u s continued to raise the question of the atmospheric deterioration of the population of Prague, which, in view of the need for housing to be covered by the directive, was discussed in the same way as in the case of the Prague population.