The observation has been recorded that all of the Czechs, whether farmers, workers, shopkeepers or civi! servants, honour learning, and they like to be led by professors, The late Masaryk was a philosopher at the University of Prague before he became President of the republic; Benes (pronounced Benesh), his dis ciple and successor, was a university (Prague) political economist; Dr. Krofta, the Foreign Minister, is a Scholar who has written a history of his country; and Dr. Milan Hodza, Prime Minister since: 1935, holds a Ph. D. in Slavonic history from Vienna.
On the death of their President-
Liberator, one year ago, Czechoslovakia might have suffered a fatal loss but for her very good fortune im possessing another founder-statesman to take up the worthy task, He is President Eduard Benes who grew up under the great Masaryk. He has had to meet very difficult situations and so far he has steered the state wisely, in the midst of an intricate system of politics and strategy.
Czechoslovakia today is a highly important state, not_in its own right as an independent republic, but in that its overthrow would involve a serious disturbance in the present European balance-of-power. This would mean that the nations involved "Would have to reassert themselves and seek a restoration of equilibrium through resort to arms. ten land is older than the Sudeten-German title.
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