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Benos, former president of Czechoslovakia, addrosson Czech troops, somewhere in England.
WHEN HITLER'S SECRET ENVOYS VISITED BENES
Disclosures of Nazi proposals to Czechoslovakia which betrayed Germany's preparation for
By O. H. BRANDON
war
disclosures. The substance of only would Germany have taken went to report the party's Inde- the broadcasts has been publish- Immediate charge of Czechoslo- clsion to Hitler at Nuremberg, ed in book form in the Czech vakia's internal politics; but it and all prospect of amicable ar language, but is not yet avail- would have been a signal defeat rangement was blasted by Hit- able in English.
for the Western Allies and n ler's determination to destroy sign that that front was not Dr Benes by force. proof against Hitler's poison. Counter-Proposal
Two Envoys On
A Trip To Prague
So that the world should not
HITLER would never have be aware of his attempt to per-
Unanswered
WHAT had happened to the secret onvoys and
been content merely to suade Dr Benes to become what rule Germany. The idea of is now called a Quisling, Hitler world domination was always in insisted that no one should be their mission of October, 19367 his mind. As early as the informed of his envoys' visits When they left Prague they. autumn of 1933 feelers were put and that any agreement that took to Hitler Dr Benes's coun- out from Berlin to discover might be reached should be one ter-proposals which suggested whether Czechoslovakia could between him and Dr Benes per- that Germany should confirm not be persuaded to sign in sonally. Not even the Czecho- the "Locarno Agreement" with secret a bilateral pact leaving slovak Government was to be Czechoslovakia of 11 years be- Britain and her ally France and informed, Hitler on his sido fore. Dr Benes received that those other allies, Russia and did not inform either his confirmation, upon which he the Little Entente, out of the Foreign Minister, von Neurath, further proposed an agreement; picture. Dr Benes, then For- or the German Ambassador in based on the Locarno Pact. eign Minister, replied that any Prague, Eisenlohr, negotiations must include all Stirring Up
The Henleinists
European countries and that
WHEN Dr Ben&S, agreements must en on
in the Protectorate, The
which would recognise All Czechoslovakia's obligations to- wards other States. The text of this agreement was sent to
President of Czecho- tain, France and their allies on slovakia, mentioned in a the one side and Germany on the
DR Benes agreed, with the Berlin: In January, 1987, the stipulation that both envoys informed Dr Benes that speech in London early this other.
his Prime Minister and Foreign Hitler had received their report months of Dr Benes foresaw that Hit- Secretary should be informed. favourably. The year that he had three times refused a German offer of ler's object was to split allies The two envoys therefore had 1937 slipped by, but no answer
and possible allies so that he to see the Czechoslovak. Foreign ever came to the proposals. a bilateral pact in the years might deal with each sepurule- Minister themselves and inform The history of the envoys before the war, Goebbels ly, and realised that safety lay him of their mission. Dr Benes does not link up again with the seized on the news and at- only in collective security. Hit- according to Dr Drtina's history of events until a year tempted to make mischief ler started his campaign against statement-also told the rep August, 1998, the signal was later. About the middle of the League of Nations, but al- sentatives of the Czechoslovak though Dr Benes warned both Constitution,
given for firing the powder ma- FUTURE PROBLEMS Czech Press was ordered France and Britain of his pur-
Hitler, having come to the Frank, Henlein
gazine inside Czechoslovakia. to distort the President's pose, it seemed that they still
and other when they are arrived at, will words to suggest that he thought agreement with Hitler conclusion that he had failed to leaders had escaped across the entangle Dr Benes, tried next frontier to Germany. The en- had abused his position to was possible. books. The Sino-
On Oct. 11, 1936, two conf. by the weight of his own per voys' mission had failed; Hitler Japanese hostilities cover a mul- prevent agreement
sonality to impress and persu had laid aside all thought of a WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., Ltd. titude of issues apart from con- tween Czechoslovakia and dentint envoys, sent personally ade him.
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warlike preparations.
them they returned to Berlin man (Henlein) party had at- Honest Man the arbitrators will have to con.
and came once again to Prague, tempted to bring Dr Benes un-
THESE are the events as This drew an answer, and on Dec. 18, after having re- der their influence even before
Dr Drtina has des- sider when the Axla has been an effective answer. Five ported to Hitler,
his election as President of cribed them. The Czechs now broken and its Far East seg- broadcast messages from
Dr Benes heard them with at- Czechoslovakia. In December, know something of Hitler's rpent fitted back into its proper Britain to the Czech people their game. They offered agree. Ministor, one of the Sudeten dual statesmen in his attempt
tention, although he saw through 1935, while he was still Foreign methods of approaching, indivi
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She will tory of Hitler's private whether that meant that he tions." A meeting with Hen- tries. There
have certainly must break off his alliance with icin and even with Hitler was been other secret agents visit- not yield Manchukuo willingly negotiations with neighbour those Powers they replied that proposed.
ing foreign statesmen. Some but might subscribe to autonomy States and secret prepara- this "would not really be neces Thus Henlein admitted, as times they have failed, but, a88 thero ̄ ̄If this was established tions for conquest on the sary," but that, in the event of early as 1935, his party's active history shows, they have had under unbiassed supervision. grand scale as early as 1938. conflict between, say, France collaboration with Hitler, and it some successes. Any "special position" held by It is not material which, and Germany, Czechoslovakia becomes now obvious why Dr
The Nazi undermining of would simply not fulfil her Benes did not trust his promises Europe's capitals and frontiers Japan in the five northern pro- so far, has been disclosed to pledges.
and did not accede to the party's was prepared with careful fore- vinces could not be of a per- the English-speaking world, This was the Fuehrer's first demands. He refused to the sight many years ahead. The manent character. With sin- but the following is an out- appeal to perfidy.
proffered bargain.
failure to make. Dr Benes an cerity on both sides and the line of the very surprising Triumph Denied
Hitler was infuriated. His agent in the business must have kindly crasions of time these statements which Dr Benes
next move was to use the Hen- been for Hitler the first sign To Hitler
leinists to stir up internal con- that there are statesmen who areas would revert fully to felt compelled to make to
found China. The Japanese Navy silence the malevolence of
DR Benes asked whether flict. Dr Benes
the will honour their pledges. their offer would mean Sudeten German clamour grow- Dr Benes lost the game to- would remain a threat to Asia Goebbels and to let in new that Czechoslovakia must resign ing, and the party's Influence Hitler. He lost, and left and Europe until liberal light on the methods of Hit- from the League of Nations, be challenged the tranquillity of the Czechoslovakia, but he did not government took the reins in ler in laying his plans for cause what was suggested was State.
give up the fight for his coun- Tokyo; and America completed war.
in direct contradiction to the In 1938 he made proposals for try's liberation. her two-ocean navy. However,
Covenant. Hitler's spokesmen an accommodation" and at one He had seen Hitler In his true thought that this would not be moment it seemed as if in the colours and understood his necessary either, In the event Henleinist councils moderation plans. Though the Czechoslovak of Geneva making a decision might win the day, Those Army never had a chance to
to DR Bones, dividing his unfavourable
Germany, among the malcontents who fight, it is worth recalling that time as he did between Czechoslovakia would, of course, feared war-and its conse- Czechoslovakia under Dr Benes, Prague and Geneva, had for refrain from carrying out the quences to the Sudeten Germans was the only democracy which many years all an excellent decision of the League. -hesitated; but Dr Frank (now was increasing its armed forces vlow behind the scenes of Cen- What a triumph for Hitler if von Neurath's aide-de-camp in and this was due to the Presi- tral European politics; he lived Dr Bencs had said Yes! Not the terrorisation of the Czechs) dent's foresight. which was at last to erupt over close to the simmering volcano
the Continent.
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The small states of South Dr Drtina, who had been a America have gotten along well member of Prof. T. G. Masaryk's apart from such comparatively Presidential bureau, became Dr minor frictions as the Chaco Benes's secretary on his election war, the presont Peru-Ecuador as President of Czechoslovakia' border dispute etc., small mat at the beginning of 1086. After ters that can be settled with Dr Benes resigned and left the little bloodshed and little effect almost a year till, in December,
country Dr Drtina remained for: on the world at large. There 1939, his position as an import- fore, there is no reason why ant link with the exiled Govern Czecho-Slovakia cannot be re- ment became too dangerous. surrected, Croatia be given au
Ho fled, with the Gestapo hot. tonomy, a Ukraine created and on his track, and is now once Manchukuo become a separate laborator. K
more Dr. Benca's closest col- and friendly state all under the Thus it comes about that he auspices of a League of Nations was instructed to make these that would not be a rabbit war- ren of intrigue with the Powers shirking their dutiés.
into one nation that the terrible Teutonic efficiency demanded then or the neighbours and sacrifices, first of the people,
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