VON NEURATH: I said that I had good relations with the archbishop.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL-FYFE: I would just like you to look at this copy.
My Lord, this is a copy, but General Ecer assures me that he can get the original from the Czech Government files. I received it only a half hour ago. General Ecer, who is here from Czechoslovakia, says that he can vouch for the original.
I’d like the defendant to look at it. Is that a letter which you received from the archbishop?
My Lord, it is Document D-920, and it will be Exhibit GB-517:
“Your Excellency, very esteemed Herr Protector of the Reich:
“Your last letter has filled me with such sorrow because I could not but gather from it that not even Your Excellency is prepared to believe me—that I lost consciousness and had to call university Professor Dr. Jirasek, who remained beside my sickbed for an hour—he is coming again today, together with the specialist on internal diseases....”
And then he gives his name.
“Your Excellency may be sure that I shall always do what I can to please you. But please, have mercy on me, too, and do not demand that I should act against the laws of the Church.
“Yours, et cetera, Karl Cardinal Kaspar, M. P. prince archbishop.”