STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 580, sig. 109-4/327 Page 9 · 9 of 43
STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 580, sig. 109-4327
English Translation
- 3 - to limit the press and more or less spectacular visits. At his press receptions he mainly celebrated the above-mentioned military agreement with France, underlining the unreserved will of the Czech people to gain independence. As far as the French press has reported on this, his visits led Mr. Benesch and others. to the French Prime Minister and to the Polish "President of the Minister" General Sikorski, who, by the way, was also visited by Mr Hodza. I have already reported on Benesch's contact with Austrian legitimists. The visit of Benesch was finally opened in the house in the rue Bonaparte, where he served during the World War, and with the Czech officers gathered in the "Cercle Militaire". At the reception by Letzere took from the French side, among others. As former chief of the General Staff of the Czechoslovak Army and Faucher as former head of the French military mission in Czechoslovakia. After his departure from Paris, Mr. Benesch published an essay in the "Oeuvre" in which he sets out his war goals. He calls for a new balance between the great nations; a new system for peaceful cooperation between the major powers on the one hand and the small and medium states on the other; finally, a new collective security system. Here, too, Mr. Benesch proves that he is and remains the Eternal Steer. e.g. by Bülow-Schante. To the host office, Berlin.