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

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e 2. Question: Do you, Mr. Secretary of State, have any indications that Benesch's policy, which, as his attitude has shown in the Polish affair and his last trip to the United States, seems to be based on a closer connection between his policy and Moscow, has found any response in the Czech population? Answer: It is necessary to point out the political brokerage activities of Benesch as an emigrant during the First World War and later within the framework of the Geneva League. From this time he has undoubtedly the best relations of all émigrés living in London (also the non-Czech ones) and, as he informs us in the letter of October 1942, which was also published in an illegal group, he is particularly proud to have stabbed the Poles, whom he has despised as a "civilized Western Slave" since his life in London. kt Dr considers himself to be the greatest statesman of the European continent, who must constantly give lectures on the true situation in Europe to the English and Americans. Of the Americans he says in the above mentioned bm aarten, letter of the l0.l0.I942 with superior tip, Alegal Mebanplanll. RasxxsiexihmxbsixxsinenxpatitixeksnxRkänεnxMεκh gergfa folamn that they "will not recognize European affairs and will not know them even after the wars". Undoubtedly, Benesch sees himself as an admirer, even to the statesmen of the countries that remained neutral in this war far superior European politicians, yes, as "leading European head! a peace conference and hopes to maintain a position of loyalty in post-war Europe, from which