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...days must have dragged for King Haakon. Nights were now only twilight and almost every day fresh blankets of spring snow fell to impede the progress of Allied and Norse troops seeking to wrest Narvik from the stubborn clutch of some 3,500 Austrian ski troops under General Eduard ("The Bull") Dietl, entrenched on towering Rombak Heights southeast of the town. Through the snow swirls, shielded more than blinded, came steady streams of Nazi planes to drop food, munitions, more men to the beleaguered invaders. They revived and reinforced a second Nazi contingent on the north side of Rombak Fjord...
Christened Maria Elizabeth Katerina Gabrielle Dorothea Constance Edwarda in Manhattan's Corpus Christi Catholic Church was the daughter of Prince Hubertus zu Löwenstein, former leader of the Catholic party in Germany. Godparents: Dr. Eduard Benes, former president of Czecho-Slovakia, and Mrs. Nicholas Murray Butler...
...negotiations that led to the historic Munich Pact pleased the British Government, the French industrialists, who are among his chief supporters, and the Nazis, but displeased anti-appeasers everywhere. He talked big about France keeping her alliances, but acted differently. He held up a crucial message from President Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia to Premier Daladier. In forwarding to the British Cabinet a French Army resume he was said to have censored it so that the weaknesses and not the strength of the French Army were emphasized...
Last November France formally recognized as a Government-in-exile the Czechoslovak National Committee which set up shop in the same old house on the Rue Bonaparte, Paris, where Czechs also worked for their freedom during World War I. Last week British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax notified ex-President Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia, leading committeeman, that His Majesty's Government was also prepared to "afford all requisite support to the Committee in its activities." Thus the Allies acquired a new ally, and a future Czecho-Slovakia, freed from German "protection," had a new Government ready to move...
...Premier also conferred with Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of Czechoslovakia from which Poland last year seized by force about 400 square miles, the Teschen area. Czechs bitterly declare that Poland did to them exactly what the Soviet Union later did to Poland: took advantage of a Nazi smash to grab. But today there is no point in Czecho-Slovaks quarreling with Poles, and General Sikorski observed after his conference with Dr. Benes: "Past errors between our two countries have been repaired and in the future we shall co-operate...