English Translation

On 21 November, Masaryk, in an audience, informed Prime Minister Hodža of his irrevocable intention to withdraw from the presidency and recommended Benesch as his successor. The Agrarians, as the strongest party, declared that Benesch was Vice President of the Czech People's Socialist Party, i.e. Partyman; only a politically unbound personality would be bearable. Suddenly the name of the president of the Czech National Council, Prof. Dr. Bohumil Němec, appeared. Vraný, the exponent of the right-wing group within the agricultural party, was the first to name him; on whose advice he did so, it remained unknown. Let us report on the further events of a Jewish historian, Harry Klepetář: "By the end of November, the crisis had become extraordinary. Hodža's efforts in his own party remained futile, and the event that followed, the election of the president, the division of the population into a right and left, was approached. The nervousness of the leading statesmen increased from day to day. Beneš remained calmly alone" (Harry Klepe- tař, "Since 1918..., A History of the Czechoslovak Republic). Publisher Julius Kittl's successor, M.-Ostrau 1937. p. 397). 110 08 D.1