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63 New-Yorský Denník of 27 May 1943. "Wew-YORK is welcomed to Benesch. La Guardia calls on the people of our big city to welcome the Czech President. The solemn greeting on Friday, 28 May, at 12 noon. Editorial: "Benesch rejected the non-aggression pact with Hitler". "The Czech president at the lunch of the Overseas Fress Club of America Hitler three times offered me a non-aggression pact according to the model of the German-Polish agreement.*- Benesch told the German dictator that the ČSR would remain faithful to the League of Nations and the alliance agreements with France and the USSR.- The ČSR argued from the beginning that there was no compromise between democracy and Nazism." New-York, 26 May: to New York The return of Benesch from his successful lecture trip to Chi- cago. At lunch at the Overseas Press Club.of America, he said in his speech, among other things: "The task of the ČSR in the current world crime sex: The Munich dictation was the prelude to the present world war. Today, we can already speak calmly of the September crisis of 1938. I am talking about them without anger and without criticizing them. On the policy of the non-aggression pact of l938, it was said that it gave Europe and the world another year of peace - better said, one year of preparation against the attack of the dictators in 1939. I took the position that the attack against the ČSR in Sept. 1938 had to be prevented at all costs, that the occupation of Austria had to prevent in March 1938 and that Hitler's invasion of the Rhine area had to have been answered with the entry into force of the military clause of the Locarno Treaty in March 1936. This was the only way to prevent a second world war. The Munich agreement went ahead with the fight and saved the European peace only for a short time. Only 6 months later the occupation of the Czech territory and the $\B-59/43 came.