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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...
...From Munich to Moscow. Once the Nazi pressure is removed from the center, energy will radiate from the East and the West-from Moscow and from Washington. Czechoslovakia's response may commit the Continent...
Summarizing, in February 1939, what had been done to his country, scholarly Diplomat Benes found for the western democracies the tough descriptive term "decadence." A few weeks later, Hitler slept in the castle of Prague. When post-Munich Czechoslovakia was carved to pieces, Soviet Russia recognized "independent" Slovakia. But at that moment, the "decadent" democracies began to wake up from pacifist follies and appeasement nightmares. Their encouragement put life into the Czechoslovak Government in Exile...
Though culturally and economically facing West, Czechoslovakia felt herself finally drawn into the military and political power fields of Russia. Last December, the Soviet-Czechoslovak alliance was formally signed. To the Czechs it meant Russian guarantee of Czechoslovakia's pre-Munich borders. To Moscow it meant Czechoslovak compliance with Russia's policy in Europe...
...night the R.A.F. sent 1,000 heavy bombers against Stuttgart, Amiens and Munich, dumping a record bomb load of 3,360 tons. On the day before that, U.S. day-flying bombers from Britain had attacked Brunswick. On the day after, the U.S. heavies struck again, this time at Augsburg and Ulm. After dark the R.A.F. swarmed out again, to Amiens and Clermont-Ferrand. Next day the U.S. punch fell on Vienna; at night the R.A.F. attacked Sofia...