English Translation

Also appreciated the life forces of the German people and overestimated the strategic forces of Western democracies. When he created the Czechoslovak state, he assumed that England and France would keep Germany politically and militarily in check for at least 50 years. Today I can quite rightly say that behind these combinations of Masaryk was already the shadow of Dr. Benesch, the type of a diligent accountant who accurately calculates with imprecise values. Benesh imagined that Prague would be the center of a non-German Central Europe and, finally, even put Berlin in the shadows. In Prague, according to his plan, the governors of England and France were to sit, who had to direct the fate of all Central European peoples east of the German and Italian borders. In order to achieve this goal, Dr. Benesch wanted to go even higher than his master, he wanted to surpass England and French in the anti-German attitude himself. Benesch, as soon as signs of a conciliatory tone against Germany appeared in France, for example under Laval in 1935, immediately mobilized England and mobilized all the underground forces of France to scare away these conciliatable signs and to keep Germany strategically in check, after his erroneous assumption. Who is the work of Dr. Benesch and his statements about "Scientific politics, it is clear to him that in the politics of interests, as he said, he distinguished an instantaneous economic constellation and unchanging international constant. And for such an immutable international constant in Czech politics, for example, he considered the supposedly traditional friendship with the Western democracies in happiness and misfortune. This political constant of Benesch captivated the Czech people to the fate of England and France. I remember here with Dr. Benesh's 1936 conversation, in which he told me: "The basis of my policy, and thus of our state's policy, is the principle of never doing what England would not be desired. I must admit that I too was in favour of the destruction of the Danube monarchy. I fought against them as volunteers and rejoiced at the freedom that the Czech people gained after World War II. However, when I came to the Czechoslovak General Staff and looked a little behind the scenes of the Allied strategy and politics, I felt that I did not want to hide this, sometimes close to my heart. However, as a soldier, I was guided by the principle that we should leave politics to politicians and stick to our sabres as soldiers, because when Foreign Minister Dr. Benesch said that we had the most solid and thorough alliance agreements that the world has ever seen, I had to believe that.