English Translation

Jacobi: "Golem... Chechnya" The attitude of the Agrarians outlines Klepetař with the following words: "Beran, to the surprise of many — probably also the Prime Minister Hodža — approved all the proposals of Vraný, especially the fact that the agricultural party raised Prof Němec to its official candidate. Now Masaryk intervened again. He received Beran at Lana Castle in December 1935. Nothing is known about the conversation... Since Beran neither now nor later stood up for Benesch's candidacy, it can be concluded that he had taken no responsibility for asaryk and that the president had not succeeded in winning Beran for his plans (loc. cit. p. 398). Němec played the role of a stubborn counter-candidate who focused the Benesch opposition on his person: "In the meantime, Hodža continued to try to agree the coalition on the president's question. He put his hopes on Prof. NěMec, whom he expected he would not accept the candidacy against Benesch and thus against the wish of Ma- saryk. However, the situation became even more confused and thus seemingly more real: "On Wednesday 11 December, Rof. Němec served as chairman of the National Council in order, as he said, to promote himself as a simple citizen rather than as president of the national top organisation for the highest office in the state. On Thursday, 12 December, the crisis in the national council occurred. In a presidential meeting, representatives of Czech Social Democrats and People's Socialists declared that the chairman, Prof. Němec, who had violated his objectivity by standing up as a candidate for the right against President Masaryk's candidate and the majority of the people, Dr. Benesch, 111 01S10