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

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Antn? 1. Prage: For better understanding, I have to give an introduction. Eduard Beneš, whose characteristics, character and abilities I have known since the beginning of the Czech-Slovak Republic in l918, but especially as a former member of the foreign policy committee of the Czechoslovakian House of Deputies since the famous parliamentary elections in the Herbet year l935 (Sudetendéuche party ju (strongest party in the state), is the type of the political- xtish Haeardeurs(Maklers). To be_extraordinary-star- Mishe fine timehait eig kes politiaches. Need to live. su- befriadigen-und dm in in dnblens askomd nd the world play a role su, to be printed, filmed and broadcasted brlále meal bamise, he is capable of anythingAfter the bankruptcy ria. d bhannk Aolihe of his "state art" in 1938 - the cschecho-slovaki- urMoscows Pramda wm sche Republik serbruch is known to have broken down into Beneğ's incompetence- 49.Ku.1934., the core problem of steats, the question of nationality su solves - he dictated as President and emigrated abroad in October 1938, [his Velke-disdained-and cursed. At that time, in the mood of the Benkrot teurs, he wrote to his successor legally elected by the techechic people, today's President Dr. Emil Hácha, on 30 November 1938 from England (Putney) the already published letter, in which he wrote the president 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 fair and thoughtful legal action in often most delicate matters; and the fact that all of us agreed on your election only emphasizes this. With the expression of sincere respect. ez. Dr. Eduard Beneš." fuhul w mefru1939 mabya alle audian Votilau After months-an eusreichigen petite-cat-jammer he took-ihn-neuerdinge_the player's passion and entered the political stage. Exactly according to the methods and with the effects of the first emigration in 1916/18 he went to work.