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...Eduard Benes calls his plan for Czechoslovakia "synthesis"-a word he loves. A shrewd master of simplicity, he explains his country's "middleclass revolution" in notably simple terms: "We are giving property to the propertyless. Others who have too many possessions are being scaled down. Everyone, however, will not be on the same level. Instead, the middle class will be a broad band within which there will be plenty of room for private enterprise and initiative alongside state control and socialism...
...Benes well knows, revolutions are never as simple as that. Synthesized or not, they pose the basic question: is the state to be the master or the servant of the people? And if the state is king, can the citizen be free? A lifelong democrat, Eduard Benes would probably answer such questions with another: what if, as in Britain and now in Czechoslovakia, free men choose to limit their freedom...
...Liberty. Eduard Benes grew up in a search for freedom. He was born, the last of a family of ten children, under a peasant's roof...
...Garrigue Masaryk was Czechoslovakia's George Washington. He and Benes first met at Prague's Charles University, and thereby began one of history's notable partnerships in thought, politics and statesmanship. Masaryk's influence turned the didactic radical into a tolerant democrat and eclectic rationalist. Eduard Benes began to practice the blending "art of synthesis." In his Charles University thesis, he essayed a prophetic conclusion: mankind must find a synthesis of its ideals in order to form a working formula for progress. Democracy, in particular, must find the correct compromise between individualism and socialism...
...Program. Eduard Benes was the link between Czechoslovakia's democratic past and the uncertain present. His great talents for compromise and maneuver which he developed and used in the prewar years stood him and his country in good stead now. A prewar French biographer, Pierre Crabites, said of him that Benes "understands the art of keeping his eye on the bear when circumstances force him to dance with it." But, as his conduct in 1938 proved, he also knows when to stop dancing...