"After Munich, Masaryk wrote to Dr. Chvalkovsky with his resignation—'"1 prefer to be a beggar in Democratic America" he said "than Minister for a country which is obliged to follow Hitler's orders" For about two years Masaryk was official representative of Benes in the United States but in September 1940 he went back to London to take up his ru post. p "General Sergei Mgr, the Minister of War, is an experienced soldier He was in the Austrian Army at the beginning of the last war and contrived to be taken prisoner by the Serbs. He then entered the Serbian Army and fought against the Bulgarian in e—Dobrudscha. From there he went to Russia where he joined the staff of the First Czechoslovak Brigade, This Brigade, just before the Revolution, was transported by sea to France, and there General Mgr took part in the campaign on the Western Front until he was sent to Italy to organize an army out of Czech and Slovak prisoners of war,
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