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...greying at the sides, a mouth that seldom smiles. Czechoslovakia's No. 2 Washington was born on May 28, 1884, at Koslany. near Pilsen, in Bohemia, where his father scraped a living as a peasant truck farmer. As the youngest, most gifted of the family of ten, Eduard was sent to high school, then the University of Prague. There he became a national figure, not in politics, but as the flashy forward for the "Slavia" soccer team...
President Masaryk. Two years before his death last September he passed the presidency to his assistant, Eduard Benes, then his Foreign Minister. Today, this co-founder sits in Masaryk's chair in the Hradcany, the castle of the Kings of Bohemia which towers above the capital city of Prague...
Elected Foreign Minister in 1918, Eduard Benes held the job for 17 years largely through sheer ability, for during that time his own political supporters, the Czech National Socialists, were usually the least influential of the major parties. During this time, France and Britain called the European tune from Geneva, League Delegate Benes' logical, forceful arguments were helping them carry many a day, and those nations flatteringly bestowed on him the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
...teetotaler and a nonsmoker, Eduard Benes as President leads an unsocial life- when not laboring in the Hradcany Castle he skis, plays tennis or secludes himself with his wife at his Benesov estate not far from Prague...
President Benes believes that the "Fascintern" will collapse of its own armor-plated weight. He thinks the job of the democracies is to avoid war at almost any cost until time comes to their side. Eduard Benes is thus an optimist. He refuses to believe that Germany will attack his little State. His optimism he bases on three considerations...