English Translation

- 3 - 233 15 minutes of talks with the homeland: "This afternoon the Czechoslovak Council of State met in London for an extraordinary meeting in order to honour the heroic fighting spirit of the Czech people in the Hei-mat and to commemorate the countless sacrifices brought by the Czech People every day. Edvard Benes, the chairman of the Czech Council of State Dr. Srámek and the members of the Czechoslovakian Council of States in London. First, the Czech envoy Prokop Maxa welcomed the President of the Republic and emphasized the importance of the meeting of the Chekhozl State Council in a moment when the Czechosl. "It is now an extremely tragic and drammatic time, and we here in London feel more connected in those fateful days than ever with the distant homeland. Today it has become even more necessary, as this has already been the case, the interests of the Czechosl. Perception of the people and as government of this people to pursue and strengthen his heroic struggle with extreme sympathy. Vir honor today the heroic laltung of the Czechosl. People in the homeland and want to give him courage in his heroic struggles, so that he may be silent in his general resistance and not lose faith and firm conviction that his sufferings and sacrifices are by no means in vain, but that they do not contribute to the victory of the Allies to a small extent. To that victory of the right over the violence and terror, the victory of humanity over all the horrors that Hitler has brought over the world." Then the chairman of the State Council emphasized that the Czechoslovak Council of State in London as well as the Czecho-Slovak State Council. He said: "The Czechoslovak Council of State in London joins in full agreement the head of the President of State when he said: For us and for the Czech Republic, the government does not recognize any of the Nazi acts of violence carried out in the Protectorate and none of the Nazis who have entered into force since 28 September 1988. There is no protectorate, no Czech president in his home country and no Czech government. Likewise, we recognize the existence of a self-permanent Czechoslovakia." This position was repeated and highlighted by the chairman of the Czech Council of State, especially at a time when Czech President Dr. Hácha clearly showed as the "self-helper of the Nazis. As a result, the chairman of the Czech State Council stated that the proposal to send a message from this plenary session to the home country at its meeting