English Translation

The Englishman Sidney Morell wrote: "... the most important chapter of Runciman's mission is the control of Czechoslovak politics, which now slipped away from the hands of Mr. Benesch. On 21 September 1938, in Nuremberg, the Sudeten Germans announced that they would return to the Reich, if it had been for England to fulfill his promises to the Czechs who had been put up against the Reich. Lord Runciman, however, left our country by giving the Czech government a letter dated 21 September. He left behind a memorandum in which he announced that the claim of the empire to the Sudeten Germans was right, that Czechoslovakia had to abstain immediately from all anti-German politics and to terminate the treaties with France, Soviet Russia and the Little Entente. Thus, England's betrayal had already been sealed and Benesch's politics had failed. In practical terms, Lord Runciman already made it clear at that time that the Bohemian countries were left only to ask for his protection from the Great German Empire! It is therefore an untrue assertion of today's British propaganda and of the Czech emigration paid by the English that the idea of establishing a protectorate came from the Germans and was only born shortly before 14 March 1939; rather, it was already considered in September 1938 in England. The tragedy of the Czech state, which was artificially created in Versailles after the World War, reached its peak in Munich on September 30, 1938, when England and France betrayed us, when Soviet Russia did not care at all and we became the most deserted nation in Europe. Of all the solemn military and alliance agreements, we were left with only the eyes to cry about our naivety and credulity. Dr. Benesch then accused England of betrayal, went to the presidency, finally lost himself silently into the foreign country, from where he on 30 November 1938 our current president Dr. Emil Hácha congratulated him in writing on his election, which is all the more interesting because he later, through his helpers on the Czech broadcasts of British radio, claimed that Dr Háha had become president by an election that had not complied with the constitution of the former state. Of course, following this claim, he had the thesis spread that he himself was the legitimate "President of the Republic". As I was officially informed, Benesch recently made this in a London radio speech on 14.3. In 1942, when he said that he had foreseen things since 1938 and had already prepared the ground for a later activity of the "Czechoslovak government" in London, Benesch, however, was reconciled with his and the fate of his people in the letter to Dr. Hácha, which had not been published so far.