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46a 36 in other words, and now joined the remarks of General Husarek of the New. Subsequently, all the former ministers present (Dr. Hodža, Dr. Černý, Bechine, Dr Franke, Dr Šramek, Ježek and Mlčoch) and the party leaders (Beran, Hampl, Dr Klapka and Dr. Hodáč) that the position of the army must be decisive and that it is impossible to go to war. I This was actually decided on the acceptance of all English applications. The subsequent approval in the Council of Ministers meeting (which I described above) I was therefore only formal in nature. President Benesch was in constant compact with the Czech Communists in the above mentioned days. Under the leadership of the deputy Gottwald, the board of this party visited Dr. Benesch several times. What was negotiated about, but also acted on, neither I nor the other participants in the mentioned conference learned anything about it. E ESLUpN But I have noticed that the Soviets had an infinite amount of è, that one could not say of them, they did not fulfill the treaties (as it was said of France). When all the English requests for the assignment of the Sudeten area had already been accepted, and when Siherhiet firmly stated that there would be no war, the smate communist press immediately declared to us and the Communist deputies that the Soviets had gone to war as allies alongside Czechoslovakia, war would have come. At that time I was convinced that the representatives of the Soviet Union most likely said Benesch clearly (even if Benesch did not tell us) We are not prepared, we cannot yet." It therefore implies a piece of irony, if we can sssgen that the Bohemian countries in the year l938 were saved from war and destruction - because the Soviets at that time were not prepared for the war. Because this did not make Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia war zone. valre 06710