SAD EVENTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1938, Page 7

SAD EVENTS

FOLLOWING ON EVENTFUL YEARS BENES STATES REASONS FOR RESIGNING HOPES OF BETTER PERIOD (Received This Day, 10.20 a.m.) PRAGUE, October 5. Dr Benes, in a letter announcing his resignation, said: “The eventful three years of my presidency have culminated in sad events in these last days. They have weighed down our spirits and hearts, but have not broken our faith nor ideals towards our people as

a nation and State, though they have changed the basis of our existence. The circumstances are so changed that I feel my remaining in office would constitute an obstacle to the new conditions confronting the State. These chiefly concern the international situation. With a view to the rapid development of collaboration with out neighbours, we now have constituted a new Government to further economic efforts and social reconstruction, which is aiming chiefly at internal development. I realise, in these conditions, that it is essential for me to withdraw from office. This does not mean that I evade responsibility. I only wish to facilitate the Government’s policy, externally and internally. I am convinced that a better period is before us, a period of successful labour and prosperity.”