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Almost lost in the stir created by the visit of Winston Churchill and his military entourage was another European statesman: stubby, sad-eyed Eduard Benes, Czecho-Slovakia's President in Exile. At the White House, where he was an overnight guest, Eduard Benes got a warm welcome; Franklin Roosevelt promptly raised to Embassy status the U.S. Legation credited to the Czech Government in London (see p. 82). Then the two Presidents sat up far into the night, ranging over the field of Central European relations...
Next day, in a soft voice and broken accent, Eduard Benes addressed the two Houses of Congress, recalled for his listeners Bismarck's once-famed phrase: "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." Added the Czech President: "Europe must, therefore, never allow any nation except the Czechs to rule it [Bohemia], since that nation does not lust for domination...
...Czecho-SIovakia's Eduard Benes is due this week, President Edwin Barclay and President-elect William V. S. Tubman of Liberia late this month...
After his visit to the U.S. is completed, Eduard Benes will continue his travels. His next destination: Moscow...
Sikorski and Eduard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia, once stood together in support of a Central European federation aimed not at Russia but at Germany. Lately the Poles, heady with resurgent nationalism now that the Allies are beginning to win, have demanded some Czech territory, and Benes stands alone. But Benes still has the good will of Britain and Russia. Said the Czech Government last week, scorning rumors (current in anti-Benes circles in diplomatic Washington) that it was moving to Moscow: "We stand for an agreement between the Western democracies and Soviet Russia in Central Europe. We will...