1947 Bohus Benes : Stalin Benes Czechoslovakia Refuses Par

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The San
Francisco Examiner


San Francisco, California
21 Jul 1947, Mon \u2022 Page 18Top of Form

The Editor's Mail Box CZECHOSLOVAKIA.

To The San Francisco Examiner

Since Russia\u2019s refusal to permit certain small nations to attend the
Paris Conference on the Marshall Plan, a distinct anxiety was expressed
by many public men and by the press in general, because no exception was
made by Russia for the state of Czecho-Slovakia at least.

I think and I hope, that you will agree, that the American people are
entitled to clarification in this matter. In the opinion of many the
state of Czechoslovakia found itself twice already in its short national
existence not only on the winning" side, but on the right side,
assisted by circumstances of a blind fortune plus the shrewdest
political manipulations and clever propaganda.

Today this same Czechoslovakia finds itself on the opposite side of the "right" side,
but not because fortune deserted, which persistently and in
comprehensibly offered itself to that state for over a quarter century,
but Czechoslovakia finds itself on the wrong side, as the inevitable
result of the policies adopted and persistently followed by Doctor Benes
and his government after the disintegration of Czechoslovakia.

This is the policy of opportunism, the policy of selfishness and of greed.
It was one thing to profess and advertise democracy and practice tyranny
at home and still retain the confidence and friendship of England and
America, the two nations not yet permeated by hatred and suspicion and
it is another matter to influence by in intrigue and to use the so
gained power and prestige of the Soviet Union in order to satisfy
utterly selfish aims to the total ruin of another country and then "not
to follow" the path laid out and to snub the "eastern" kind of democracy
in the hope, that eventually there will be a way found to masquerade
with the more \u201cprofitable" brand of western democracy. The plain fact
is, that the game" so successfully and so long played by Czechoslovakia
is ended!

It may be unfortunate and tragic for the people of
Czechoslovakia, but this time Doctor Benes "truly" has to choose and
stick to his choice. One thing western democracy can and should learn
from Communism and that is "steadfast loyalty to principle."

I have before me an editorial of The Examiner, written on August 19, 1943,
titled: "President Benes Bows to Moscow." It is not the first time,
when events actually happening reminds one of the clear fore sight of
The Examiner and of Its accurate judgment of men, who sometimes are
instrumental in bringing forth regrettable events. President Benes of
Czechoslovakia is directly responsible for the "present" relationship
existing between his country and that of the Soviet Union and he
"greatly" helped Hungary also to its present fate.

When Doctor
Benes wrote in Liberty Magazine (1943) that "the Red menace is merely a
convenient instrument of aggression," etc., he was guilty of both
ignorance and insincerity. He accused the world of "knowing very little
about Soviet Russia," but we can be sure, that he himself only now,
after a bitter expert ence is able "to appraise the true nature of the
Soviet Union."

For almost thirty years Doctor Benes was able to play the fore most democrat of the world. What was his merit? Nothing
more, but his "heroic escape" from Bohemia and his abandoning his native
land to form a "refugee" government in London, leaving his less
fortunate compatriots to hold the bag and face the full brutality of
Hitler, while during all these tragic times other "of truly noble
democratic character" of many lands died martyr's death by the hundreds!

During those fateful years Doc tor Benes and his associates in the comparative
safety of London busied themselves in helping Russia create a
"barrier," which today separates his country created by America from
western Europe and cuts Europe into two noncooperating camps.

Continuous successes to fantastic gains made Doctor Benes bold and reckless and he
too, as so many before him, overestimated himself. Today and only today
he found his master, who will not be satisfied with words and gestures.

Today he realizes, that he is not dealing with "trusting and believing"
Englishmen and Americans, but with individuals, whose trust is not
easily won and not lightly to be taken.

Will Doctor Benes be able
to play his usual game with Stalin and Molotov? It will be interesting
to watch, indeed. His first attempt became his first bitter "fiasco."

A. NEMES
St. Helena, California

The
San Francisco Examiner

San Francisco, California
25 Aug 1947, Mon \u2022 Page 10



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The
Editor's Mailbox DEFENSE OF BENES.



To
The San Francisco Examiner;



I
have read only today the letter of A Nemes which was published in your paper on
July 21, 1947. The personal attack by Mr. Nemes on Dr. Edvard Benes, President
of Czechoslovakia, is so base and filled with such hatred that it reminds me of
very similar attacks by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels during the dramatic
events of the central European crisis in 1938. I am certain that the readers of
your paper have realized that Mr. A Nemes has written his lines about Doctor
Benes with 99 per cent hatred and with 1 per cent of knowledge of the facts. The
help of American public opinion
and the American administrations as well as
the help of the leaders of the two political parties, Republican and
Democratic, extend ed to Dr. Edvard Benes in his struggle for the freedom of
the Cze

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