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...Saluted continued Czecho-Slovak defiance of the Nazis in a cable to exiled President Eduard Benes (in London) on the 24th anniversary of Czech independence...
...Honest Tony" Eden and earnest Eduard Benes were the pallbearers, and there were two requiems: one by Eden in the House of Commons, one by Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk via radio to his countrymen. Thus was decent burial finally provided for a smelly old corpse, the Munich Agreement...
Though not yet in the class of the late Paddy Finucane (TIME, July 27), curly-haired, handsome Max, D.F.C., is one of Britain's aces. In London, at week's end Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes announced that young Max would get another decoration: the Czech War Cross. That made two things Benes and the Beaver shared in common-a high regard for Wing Commander Aitken and mounting impatience for a second front...
...workers' band in black & red uniforms perched on the top of the Square's air-raid shelter and played the International and God Save the King. Ten munitions workers, claiming to represent 4,000 others, presented a second-front petition to No. 10 Downing Street. Ex-President Eduard Benes of ex-Czecho-Slovakia urged an immediate second front in the hope of obtaining peace "within a year." Ex-War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha demanded either a second front or continuous British bombing raids. But the most powerful new voice added to the clamor was that of tough Jack...
...Later? In London, Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes announced that "all exponents of the Nazi Party and Reich Government on Czech territory" would be held criminally responsible for the killing of Czechs and would be executed on the day of victory. Obviously, however, threats of post-war action could do no good, since the Nazis long since have gambled everything they have on winning...