English Translation

771 Gulaf The Head of the Central Administration Z.Verw.1 Prague, April 15, 1942. State Secretary. I have checked the accommodation of the Institute of Slo=Wakian Research and have come to the conclusion that the former Japanese General Kon= sulat is suitable for accommodation. Accordingly, I have addressed myself to the representative of the Foreign Office, as in the annex. It is therefore only questionable whether the Japanese are willing to rent the house, whereby it would still be necessary to examine in detail whether the Reich should appear as a tenant for the soon to be founded Reichsinstitut - which does not yet exist until= since then - or the Pro= tectorate government. This would have to be examined by the responsible division I, to which I have sent a copy of this note. The former Yugoslav Consulate General is not yet used by the Institute for Slovak Research. Only a few rooms have been occupied for the time being, but they are not used, so that 1 in and of itself the entry of the Croats into the General= Consulate nothing in the way staedé, even if one wanted to renounce the use for 784 purposes of the Institute for Slovak Research, even at the risk that the hiring of the Japanese General=Consulate would not succeed. This would mean, however, that the institute would have to remain in the Lobkowitz Palace until the time when other rooms were found.