Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prodded by the British Foreign Office, Sikorski made some efforts to win back Russian recognition for his Government. In Cairo last week he said the peace to come should be based on a federated Europe, with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia forming the central bloc; the new Poland and its federated allies should have close economic relations with Russia...
...less than three weeks Eduard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia's Government in Exile, made nine formal speeches and one short-wave broadcast to his homeland, conferred with hundreds of friends, greeted thousands of admirers. Wherever he went he planted the thought that the rains of war and the guided plowshares of revolution can help grow good democrats in Europe...
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...
...Educational Reconstruction wants "to make sure that no country will again use education for poisoning." The Liaison Committee for International Education is trying to stimulate U.S. public interest in postwar educational problems. On record favoring an I.E.O. are spokesmen of China and of the exiled Governments of Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Jugoslavia, Greece...
Dapper Diplomat Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, 45, who used to be five Ambassadors and two Ministers (all to London-resident Governments in exile) became six Ambassadors and one Minister when the U.S. and Czecho-Slovakia upped their diplomatic relations a notch, from legations to embassies...