STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2730, sig. 109-14/33

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G. -2- and thus grxartemx can be expected forever a good neighbourly relationship between us and Poland." In the end, this forever shrunk again to mere 16 years, after which Poland raised claims on Teseh, mobilized against us and was ready to start the war with us. On 22 March of the year l922, Beneseh explained to the reportersat. On September 5 of the same year, Benesch declared in the "Cercle de Presse" in Geneva: "All thoughts about customs unions and confederations are chimeras". Today, Dr. 'Benesee willingly all plans of the English for any confederation, give joint explanations with Sikorski and present us the plan of a Polish S d c c is a chimera dangerous for us. It is grotesque that the Soviet delegates strongly criticized the old Europe as doomed and asked for money from this old Europe to save themselves. In the same year, Benesch in Geneva declared about Russia: "The general reconstruction of Europe will soon bring an end to Bolshevism, which will only be preserved because there is no order in Europe." He said in the parliament on December 1, 1992: "Prague has become a real centre of Russian culture, which, because of the political conditions in Russia, is now unable to stand out at home."