DR. BENES'S CAREER
Dr. Eduard Benes, who was elected President of the Czechoslovak nation in succession to President Masaryk in December, 1935, is a pupil of Masaryk and one of the architects of the new nation. He was born in 1884 and educated at the Universities of Prague, Paris, and Dijon. In 1909 he was Professor at the Academy of Commerce in Prague, and during the World War he organised the national movement with Masaryk. He was Foreign Secretary of the National Council which campaigned for Czech freedom from 1915, and when the new State came into being with the break-up of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire he became a member of the Second Chamber and Foreign Minister. He held that post from 1918 until 1935, and in 1921-22 was Prime Minister. He was chief delegate of the Czechs to the Peace Conference and to the League of Nations from 1920 onwards. He was also one of the founders of the Little Entente and an author of the Geneva Protocol of 1924. From 1922 he was lecturer in sociology at Prague University. He was the subject of a violent personal attack by Herr Hitler in the course of the Nuremberg speech, and the Czech Minister in London protested against the nature of the language used by the German leader.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 9
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218DR. BENES'S CAREER Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 84, 6 October 1938, Page 9
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