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Accordingly, Dr. Benes' despair over the French betrayal at Munich was bottomless. What Jan Masaryk, at home in the Anglo-Saxon world, rightly thought a mistake, French-oriented Dr. Benes considered a crime. He was shocked to the roots of his being. It will take much, perhaps more than the West ever can offer, to satisfy Dr. Benes that the Czechs can again rely on Western guarantees...
Appointed its Foreign Minister (in July 1940, while he was visiting the U.S.), Jan Masaryk impressed the democratic world with a concise European program: a disarmed, decentralized German confederation; Central Europe reorganized around a Czech-Polish confederation; similar regional federations in the Balkans, in western Europe, in Scandinavia; all these regional federations ultimately to form a Federation of Europe; inclusion of Russia in a cooperative European settlement...
...middle-class nation if there ever was one, the Czechs never were given to grandiose social scheming, to the strain of collectivism. There is an individualistic peasant and a shrewd entrepreneur in every Czech; and, if anyone does, Jan Masaryk personifies this Czech flair for individualism and good living...
...Prague, people say every other Wednesday they have to "keep an appointment with Honza" [Jan]: that is the day the Foreign Minister broadcasts to his countrymen. In these broadcasts Jan Masaryk, who never belonged to any political party and, if he has his way, never will, speaks of delivery and of the thereafter. Economically, he thinks, "thereafter" will mean a lot of Governmental planning. "I am not opposed to individual enterprise, but things are going to be different-not only in Czechoslovakia but all over Europe...
...come from Russia. Last December, in New York, Jan Masaryk said: "We intend to live our own life in our own way and we know that Russia will respect our way of living." And added: "Russia is fighting with us . . . to destroy once for all time the German Drang nach Osten and we know that without Russia in Europe there is no stopping...