English Translation

X24 Letter from Dr. E. Beneß to the writer K. Capek. TetCetrarat I thank you and your wife in their own name and on behalf of my wife. We were both pleased with your letter, in which, apart from the testimony of friendship, there was also evidence that the Czech people understood clearly from which grin and with what forces what changed the politics of our state so disastrously. You are right that by and large it is logical that I have become an emigrant for the second time in my life, you know yourself that I expected this possibility. However, I have not been mistaken in my belief in small Czech people and this faith should be the basis for my further political activity. During the 20 years of our state-building, we overpowered all our neighbours and actually threatened them with our social construction and our view of democracy. They feared us because they were always afraid of the peoples of their own countries, who could rightly point to the progress of our country. The work of the neighbouring countries, which were given to our view of the state, was always directed towards democracy, which had an example in the Czechoslovak Republic. Therefore, the affection of the oppositional Yugoslavia, of the opposing Poland and also of the others. With our continuation, we have even surpassed the democracy of the Western friendship states. Do not think that I have not observed with great vigilance the events in France from Laval to Blum to Daladier, but there was no way out, I could not tell France.