English Translation

- 2 76, Eduard Beneš, his characteristics as a politician, his abilities and his character to learn and judge. Standing in political life for years, however, I have been able to follow his internal political methods and his external political activity - both of which were very closely linked with Beneš - since 19l8. Beneš is not a politician, but an international political broker who has understood how to gain intimate insights into certain weaknesses of the policies of the Western powers including the US in emigration during the war 19l4 - l8. In this way, he was able to take advantage of this intimate knowledge in a clever way on the international political par- tett. However, the resulting routine made it possible for him also at the time of the Czecho-Slovakia to expand his post-wals foreign minister abs a kind of monopoly which could not be contested by any other Czechs. As is well known, he held the position of Foreign Minister of the Czech political parties in all cabinets until his presidential election. After the bank tot of his "state art" in l938 - as is well known, the Czecho-Slovak republic broke down at the inability of Benesch to deal with the central problem of this state the question of nationality and he emigrated abroad in October l938, with a number of not very flattering obituaries of the Czech people accompanying him. At that time he wrote to his successor, our current President Dr. Hécha, who had been legally elected by the Czech people on 30 November 1938 from England /Putney/ the letter, in which he congratulated Drl Hácha, the president of the state, who is so much concerned with him today, on his election and told him: "You have the fatherland.... Instead of the first paragraph on page 2 /Reply to question l/ I propose the following wording: 3