The Archive · 1939

Be Ready for Crisis Dr. Benes Gives Warning

Czechs in Exile Will — Of Serious Events

Ngw York, July 3. Dr. Eduard Benes, former President of Cbechoslovakia, told a mass meeting of Czechs and Carpatho-Russians here last night that "most serious events are about to take place in Europe."

He said that the dictatorships, Germany and Italy, "will do their utmost to inflict a death blow against France as a great Power and attack the vital interests of Britain."

"Czechoslovak leaders," he said, "are planning, at a propitious moment, to form a political directorate to ce-ordinate their political action, and in the event of war, military ation."—United Press.

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