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35 2 to play a role, to be printed, filmed and radioed, he is sensitive to everything. How much his bitterness was recognized and smiled abroad, proves, among other things, the well-known article of the Moscow Pravda of 19.12.1934. After the collapse of his "Staatakunst" in 1938 - the Czech-Slovak Republic, as it is well known, broke out of Benesch's insensitivity to solve the central problem of the state, the question of nationality - he thanked as President of the State and emigrated abroad in October l938. At that time, in the mood of the misguided, he wrote to his successor, the current president of the state Dr. Emil Hácha, who was legally elected by the techechic people, the already published letter from England (Putney) on 30 November 1938, in which he wrote the state president Dr. Hácha congratulated him on his election: "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 fair and thoughtful legal action in often most delicate matters; and the fact that all of us agreed on your election emphasizes this only. I wish you all the new work, with the expression of sincere respect for Dr. Eduard Benesch." Already in the year l939 he entered the political stage, contrary to his intentions at the Abdication. After three years of working abroad, the back-effects of his policy on the greeted part of his fellow people in the homeland were partly irrelevant, partly by energetic police access. The countries of Bohemia and Moravia and their inhabitants were more and more satisfied with the war, as the Czechs wanted to work in the protectorate, could earn well and did not have to fight. Thus, it did not come to the sabotage act and political demonstrations that had been desired by the Allies, which he would have needed in order to inte-