STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 483, sig. 109-4229 (damaged)

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- 21 - political exposés presented by Beneš approved by the agricultural party, in particular the sanctions against Italy, the ataaa sp aa ma The alleged support of the candidacy of Professor Dr. Nemec as president of the Czechoslovak Republic was only a maneuver. The witness Frank personally negotiated with the defendant two nights before the presidential election held in Prague on December 18, 1953, in order to thwart the election of Dr.Beneš as president of the party. In the case of So a a d d d J C witnesses, it was pointed out that the agricultural party would campaign for the election of Professor Dr. Němec. On the day of lo a a a to a a oa da right-wing agrarians voted uniformly for Beneš. It is also not correct that the accused in the critical days of September turned the most decisively against the war plotters and got in sharpest contradiction with Beneš. Immediately before the Munich meetings the dama o o oo od Czech party leader organized about her statement on the German demands. Each of the chairmen then sent a written explanation to Huntzbüchler, who was to be published as an interview in the French press. However, all the party leaders - including the defendant Beran - unanimously declared the German organizations unacceptable and expressed their determination to the -a a a aa aa p gen. The witness Frank has further stated that the defendant, as the Czech Prime Minister, must have been informed at the time that the President Dr Hacha was proposed to seek the path of immediate repression with the leader. However, the witness is aware that the then Czech minister Havelka claimed to have been the one to whom the S S Ca Caat e aa of the witness Frank also stood by the statement in this regard by the State