Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hungarians are perpetually talking about monarchy and hatching means to burst the encirclement of Hungary on three sides by the Little Entente). As the three Premiers sat down to deliberate these issues a telegram was handed to Czechoslovak Benes. It contained an order from the chiefs of his party (Czech National Socialist) that he assist it in an attack upon certain grain tariff laws dear to the Czechoslovak Cabinet by resigning his Foreign Ministry forthwith. The Little Entente Conference broke up ere it began, as its dominant figure (Benes) hastened to Prague...
This Czechoslovakian superdiplomat returned to Prague last week, summoned in haste from a meeting of the Little Entente. There dinned upon his ears the demand of his party (Czech National Socialist) that he resign as Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia-as right hand man of patriarchal President Masaryk...
...reason for this astonishing demand was of a nature dear to politicians. The Czech National Socialists are engaged in attacking the government's Grain Duties Act, a salutary bourgeois measure perhaps a trifle too conciliatory toward the Teutonic moneyed class...
...fall of 1914 he sought Professor Masaryk with a fully drafted Czechoslovakian war program. Together they organized the Czech Mafia, a secret band of patriots who spied throughout Austria-Hungary during the War, providing Benes with material which he made the substance of dickers with the Allies. It was Benes who secured the recognition of the Czechoslovaks by the Allies (1917) as a people to be liberated from foreign rule. In 1918 he obtained from Balfour and Clemenceau recognition for Czechoslovakia, as "an Allied and Belligerent nation." At that time French publicist Fournal wrote: "Benes has destroyed Austria-Hungary...
Pavel Ludikar?Czech basso, also a member of the Hinshaw Company...