CZECH POLICY.
Desire To Establish Foreign
Friendships.
INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION. (Received 12 p.m.) I'HAGUK, December 13. M. Rudolf Benin, Premier of the new Czechoslovakia republic, miiik' statement 011 foreign policy. He mi id the foremost task would be the establishment of friendship with Germany. He hoped that Herr Hitler would understand the mind of the Czech people after the recent storms. "We will adapt ourselves to what is absolutely inevitable without renouncing inalien able rights or national interests,"' lie added.
| He will also seek to extend relationwith Britain. Krancc, the t'nitcd State.-, Poland and Hungary. Events in J-.'ill <.jndid not permit optiini>ni, but boc.iu.-c of the urgency of internal reconstruction, Czechoslovakia did not desire In re-enter the international sphere.
A bill has been introduced <■ nali]i m.lt tlu* (iovcriiiiient to rule liy decree for two years, with power to alter the Constitution. The crisis decrees, limiting the freedom of the Press, mooting'* and propagiinda, will be extended for throe months longer.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 295, 14 December 1938, Page 11
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