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47 the Czech people, when the murderers and their helpers were set up. The opposite of what Benesch had hoped to be the pole of the assassination had occurred. The murder was not the beginning of further acts of uprising and sabotage, but a reason for serious political reflection of the Czechs. The extent to which English and American Benesh believed that the Czech Velk was in the Protectorate or was in revolt is beyond my knowledge. If they believe him, they are in error 2. Prague: Do you, Mr. State Secretary, have any indications that the politics of Benesch, which, like his attitude in the Polish affair and-his last trip to the USA, is the one. Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to thank the rapporteur for his excellent report, and I would also like to congratulate him on his excellent work. Benesch considers himself to be the greatest statesman on the European continent, who must constantly give lectures to the English and Americans on the true situation in Europe. In the letter of 10 October 1942, which was also published in an illegal resistance group, he told the Americans with a great deal of arrogance that they "do not know your European affairs and will not know them even after the war", Benesch no doubt sees himself as being all-wounded, (even the statesmen of the countries that remained neutral in this war) European politicians, and indeed as "leader of a peace conference" and hopes to maintain a position in post-war Europe from which he can lead all the other small peoples of Europe. In the letter of 10.10.1942, mentioned above, Benesch was particularly proud of the fact that the Poles in