CZECHS GO HOME
RUGBY, Feb. 21. Dr Benes, President of Czechoslovakia, gave a farewell party in London tonight accompanied by the I rime Minister (M. Sramek . Masaryk) and other politicians. He is returning to Czechoslovakia where it is stated, a new' Government will be formed. He has been in exile lor six and a half years On his way lie will visit Moscow, where he expects to. have exchanges of views on the basis ot the results of the Crimea Conference. After the President s departure ivlSlavik (Minister of the Interior) and M. de Ripka (Minister of State) win represent the Czechoslovak Government in London. M. Masaryk will return later.—Official Wireless. A Press Association cable says that Dr. Benes stated at the farewell party that lie was determined that the Sudeten Germans must go, becatise so long as they remained in Czechoslovakia there would be danger of civil war. “As the Czechs number 8,000,000 and the Sudeten Germans 2,800,000 there caii be only one end to it, he added.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXV, Issue 73, 23 February 1945, Page 5
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