STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2186, sig. 109-9/10

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C8 -2- was known for breaking Benesch's inability to solve the state's core problem of nationalities - he was abdicated as President and emigrated abroad in October 1938. At that time, in the mood of the miserly, he wrote to his successor, who was legally elected by the Czech people, today's President of the state, Dr. Emil Hácha, on 30 May 1938. The letter, which was published in 1938 from England (Putney), contains no Mohthtorattle, and Dr. Hácha congratulates him on his election and informs him: "You have shown great service to the fatherland in your function as President of the Administrative Court through your great experience and knowledge, as well as through your just and thoughtful legal action in often most delicate matters; and the fact that all of us agreed on your election only emphasizes this. I wish you to succeed in your new work. With the expression of sincere respect, Dr. Eduard Beneš." Already in 1939 he entered the political stage against all the other d ulty wun resolutions) Exactly according to the 1MMM methods and with the relations of the first emigration falfanb to fuid,al 1916/18 he went to work. gaa. When he did four years abroad in the multi- frim gropton tsl number of his fellow citizens in the homeland had no success since the Czechs wanted to work in the Protectorate undisturbed, could well earn and did not have to fight it did not come to the sabotage acts and political demonstrations desired by Benesch, which he would have needed in order to remain interesting with the Allies and as a pacemaker of the revolutionization of an Iand in the production of the Empire valuable, the political credit of the Czech Emigrant Association in London at that time had fallen to zero among the English and had to seriously endanger all future plans of the Czech Emigration XIn of this situation]. Benesch London, he used the means of political democracy in the United States and Japan.