CZECH REPUBLIC
HOPEFUL TURNING-POINT SEEN BY DR BENES. RECOGNITION OF GOVERNMENT BY BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 9. Speaking to Czechoslovak airmen when he visited a Royal Air Force technical training station, the President of Czechoslovakia, Dr Benes, stated that the recognition of his country’s Government by Britain was “the first hopeful turning-point of the Czechoslovakian Republic since Munich. These airmen, Dr Benes said, were the first of the Czechoslovak soldiers to take part in operations against the enemy, and he thanked them on behalf of his nation for their fight for liberty. Stating that his country had started to rise again. Dr Benes said: “I have complete confidence that the Republic will be restored as a strong, free, democratic and happy State even better than before. We have intentionally linked our destiny and our struggle with the struggle of the great European democracy represented by the United Kingdom and the British Empire.”
Dr Benes concluded with a reference to the possibility that these Czechoslovak airmen might in the course of their duties visit their Motherland and fly over its capital as "messengers of our future victory.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 5
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188CZECH REPUBLIC Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 5
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