English Translation

He used a military alliance between Czechoslovakia and France in 1920. He knew that France was weak to face Germany alone, and that a German-Italian coalition would need the help of England. Therefore, Dr. Benesch in his politics decisively to England. When France concluded an alliance with Soviet Russia in 1935, Dr. Benesch also concluded such an agreement with Soviet Russian Russia, but made it dependent on London's approval, knowing how London was due to France's lack of policy in Europe that could make it independent of England. If England temporarily turned its interest from Europe to overseas after World War II, or even showed a certain inclination of its policy towards Germany, it was Benesch who tried by all means to influence England in the sense of his own anti-German foreign policy. Thus it came about that small Czechoslovakia began to bribe among others also the "presence" British journalists with well-known amounts. The evidence for this is available, because the archives of the Prague Foreign Ministry, as they were abandoned on the eve by the officials, fell completely into the hands of the German Wehrmacht on the morning of 15 March 1939. From these evidences it is now clear how Dr. Benesch bribed the English journalists to get Britain in his anti-German attitude. By 1938, when the reader of the Czech press once in a while noticed how some English journalists were working for Czechoslovakia in seemingly sincere and unselfish friendship, it certainly filled him with a feeling of deep satisfaction that members of a people to whom the whole world was open in his empire had something left for a small people in the heart of Central Europe. In reality, this was a series of journalists bribed by Czechoslovakia, as will be explained in more detail in a brochure soon to be published in Prague's Orbis publishing house on the basis of the source material. The classic example of this is Wickham Steed, who became personally acquainted with Masaryk and Kramář in Vienna even before World War II and already acquired extensive knowledge of the political structure of Austria-Hungary at that time. During World War I he was then thanks to this knowledge of foreign policy writing director of the Times and close collaborator Lord Northcliffs, the father of the press lie. Steed's business with the head of the press section of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jan Hájek began already in 1923. This year Steed received 10,000 English pounds from Háek, which at that time had a value of 200,000 RM. Officially, Hájek concluded a contract of 10,000 pounds for the award of Czechoslovsky advertisements in the 12 13