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Dr. ALBREcht MIESBACH Wehrwirtschaftsführer Zlin, 27 March 1944. Member of the Board of Bata A. G. Minister Dr. W. Ber tschQg29. Il.1944 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Bata AG Prague II Carl Maria v.Webergasse 21 Dear Minister : The foreign journalists arrived in Zlin on the last thunder day, not as agreed at l9.l5 but at 20.30. For this reason the prepared dinner was cancelled. Of the registered press representatives a representative of Japan and Spain and the representatives of Manchuks uo were not cast. The gentlemen were accommodated in single rooms distributed on one floor of the hotel. On Friday 8.l5 the men were served breakfast in a hall of the house. Before the end of the early autumn, I had a meeting with Mr Z a n k 1 and Mr von S c.h i m p f about the implementation of the programme. At 8.50 am, the gentlemen were picked up by the editor-in-chief of the Bata newspaper, Herm Pelišek at the hotel and led to the official reception in the administrative building by the board. Mr Čipera welcomed the guests in a short speech, drawing attention to the old economic relations of the Bata Group with the individual countries of Europe and the Greater East Asian region. He recalled Thomas Bata and the principles. the work he organized, in which the Czech Achteflung IV (Rulturpolitth) Cing. on 1st LV. 1944 Hdagen: fL.3.: