BENES SPEAKS ON CZECH RELATIONS WITH SOVIET
PRAGUE, April 1. “This is the moment to stress the importance of our alliance, which is a natural expression of the friendship uniting brethren nations,” said the President of Czechoslovakia (Dr Benes), in receiving the new Russian Ambassador (Mr Michael Silin), in the presence of the Czech Foreign Minister (Mr Clements). “Both nations are filled with a deep, sincere will to preserve and, it possible, strengthen permanent, peace. We desire only to be able to care for the happy life of our nations. We want to guard this common peace programme, especially against the danger of new German aggressiveness.” Mr Silin said: “Our nations never shall forget the danger of German aggression. Both have a deep, sincere desire to strengthen permanent and over-all peace, because they devote now their main forces to the task of economic reconstruction and raising the living standard of the masses.” It was Dr Benes’s first public utterance since the Communists gained control in Czechoslovakia.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 April 1948, Page 5
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