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...future. TLI, which has been through this sort of thing before, knows, however, that its future in Czechoslovakia is almost zero. Its first move, after satisfying itself that further receipt of our publications would be highly compromising, politically, to subscribers there, was to hold up individual subscriptions, including President Eduard Benes' weekly copy of TIME...
After Czechoslovakia became a nation, he entered his father's government, first as a civil servant (secretary to then Foreign Minister Eduard Benes), later as a diplomat. His post was London, where he was enormously popular. In a crowd he sparkled, but sometimes among small groups and after a few drinks he became deeply, almost tearfully melancholy. Near war's close someone asked Jan Masaryk what his postwar plans were. Said he simply: "I want to go home...
Something for the Nation. Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk certainly had no leanings toward Communism. But they were convinced that they must snuggle up to Stalin and try to take the middle path between East and West; they would be "realists." In Moscow they made the Soviet-Czech pact on Dec. 12, 1943. For the next four years Czech Communists, who now had the might of Russia behind them, jostled, maneuvered and crowded until they took over...
...Europeans. Up in his study, within earshot of the singing students, was the man from whom the country expected an answer. For a long time President Eduard Benes had thought he knew where his home was. He was a European and a democrat. All his life he had believed in "synthesis." It was a faith, shared by millions of liberals everywhere, that the 20th Century's clashing opposites (even Communism and democracy) could be reasonably reconciled...
...Then Eduard Benes swore in the new ministers. When the President and the Premier started to shake hands in parting, they found that they stood quite far apart; they had to bend over a long way to make contact...