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Criticism of Benes Post War "Population Transfer" Plans

MARCH 1943

SOME SHIFTING

How excellent. Your Excellency! How incomparably simpler
than the clumsy grind of divine providence! dWe feel ashamed that we have not
thought of it ourselves. But now we have got the formula, so let us start
applying it without delay, here, in the American hemisphere. There are still
Frenchmen in Canada, so we are told. What an impertinence, they dare to speak
French although Canada's majority speaks English? An untenable situation, an
intolerable outrage. Kill them? Not necessary, thanks to Benes benign prescription.
Let us take ships and Transfer them to the country of their ethnic origin.
France is occupied just now? Doesn\u2019t matter, there is still French Africa. Away
with this brood!

Follows Italy. The Germans who have remained in South Tyrol
in spite of Hitler\u2019s deal with Mussolini, , must be removed at once. So must
the Slovenes in Italy s North-Eastern corner. Follows Yugoslavia. This is
especially complicated. But with Benes\u2019 help we shall master every difficulty.
Croats and Slovenes have refused to become Serbs. Away with them! There is
plenty of space in Asia, their country of ethnic origin. Follows Rumania. Let
us ship the Magyars of Transylvania to Hungary. Then there is Poland, millions
of Ukrainians. What a mess! Transfei them to Russia. Not all the Jews of Poland
have been exterminated by Hitler. Away with them to Palestine!

Now, still further to the East, things begin to be somewhat
confused. Dr. Benes eye falls on the name Soviet Union. What\u2019s that? Not yet homogeneous,
still a union of several races? Well, he is concerned with Europe only. But
there is European Russia. Very simple, the Ukrainians go to Siberia. Or perhaps
the Russians. Certainly the Latvians, Lithuanians, and Esthonians. By not
becoming Russians proper they have long exhausted Dr. Benes patience.

It is easy to understand what lies behind his smoke-screen
of absurdities. In 1919 Central Europe was tailored to meet all the willful
moods of one of its smallest nations, of 7 million Czechs, who had been able to
make themselves accepted by the Western Powers as the stalwarts of the new
order. This was one of the most surprising cases of national megalomania. The
suit did not fit. Now Dr. Benes orders another one, sold as he is on the idea
that the Czechs are Europe's selected people. Let us see what is his real plan.

The trick in all this
planning is to regard the arbitrary and unhistorical frontiers of 1 9 1 9 as
holy, sacrosanct, immutable. Otherwise it would be logical for a man, who wants
\u201chomogeneous\u201d states, to pro propose d pose propose the drawing of new
frontiers according to linguistic demarcations. It would be absurd to do this
but certainly much less absurd than Dr. Benes\u2019 glorious transfer plan. To speak
of \u201cexchange of populations is a fraud, quite especially in the case of
Czecho-Slovakia, because there are no Czechs in Germany or Hungary or Poland
who could take the place of the expelled Sudeten Germans Magyars, and Poles. Obviously,
he wants to keep the Slovaks. With them Czecho-Slovakia would have

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