CZECH CABINET
SET UP IN LONDON
BENES AS PRESIDENT
POLISH AGREEMENT
(By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright.) (Received July 24, 1 p.m.) LONDON, July 23. An Anglo-Polish Agreement sigued in London reaffirms the political and military co-operation of the two| countries, which is placed on a new basis. The Polish Prime Minister (General Sikorski), in a statement, said the Agreement accepts the prin-J ciple of the sovereignty of the Polish Army as an ally of the British Army with equality of rights and privileges. Mr. Churchill stated in the House of Commons that after nego-1 tiations between Lord Halifax and Dr. Benes, on behalf of the Czechoslovak National Committee, the Government had decided to recognise the Committee, with certain additions, as a provisional Czecho-Slovak Government. It is understood that Dr. Benes is again recognised as President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic. M. Masaryk is the Foreign Minister, and the Govi ernment includes M. Jan Sramek, a former Deputy Prime Minister, MajorGeneral Serge . Ingr, Commander-in-Chief of the Czecho-Slovak forces, M. George Slavik, a former Cabinet Minister, M. Frantisek Nemec, leader of the Czecho-Slovak Railwaymen's Trades' Union, M. Ladislav Feirebend, ja former Minister of Agriculture, and M. Stefan Osusky, former Czecho^Slovak Minister in London and later in Paris.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 9
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