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Printed by the Federal Foreign Office Kult W 3578 Copy. 20 March 1942 21 On the reports of 30 Jan. 412/3 D. Kult 11 No. 1 and 14 February 770/II D Cult 11 No.1 In the annex, I send a press release of a report from the German Embassy in Rome to the full knowledge with the request for further cause. I should also like to point out that here there is a desire to see the dissolution of the former Czechoslovak Historical Institute in Rome as soon as possible, especially since, as it is noted confidentially, the Slovak plan has emerged to establish a Slovak institute in Rome. For these reasons, I would also like to stress that the library of the Institute in Rome will be dissolved as soon as possible and that the Czech and Slovak works will be brought to Berlin as planned, where they will be handed over to the Slovak envoy on a special occasion. I assume that this dissolution of the library does not stand in the way of any final settlement of the whole matter. I would also like to remind you of the final regulation of the relationship of the law firm official Chytil. On behalf of: gez: Roth To the representative of the Foreign Office at the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia in Prague