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Beneš

American  
[be-nesh] / ˈbɛ nɛʃ /

noun

  1. Eduard 1884–1948, Czech patriot and statesman: president of Czechoslovakia 1935–38 and 1945–48.


Beneš British  
/ ˈbɛnɛʃ /

noun

  1. Eduard (ˈeːduart). 1884–1948, Czech statesman; president of Czechoslovakia (1935–38; 1946–48) and of its government in exile (1939–45)

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From the high-altitude perspective of postwar geopolitics, President Edvard Beneš dubbed it Czechoslovakia’s “final solution of the German question.”

From Slate Mar. 16, 2024

They were Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, a philosophy professor, and his colleague and ultimate successor, Eduard Beneš, who had been one of his students at Prague.

From Time Magazine Archive

On October 14, Dr. E. Beneš addressed the following letter to all the Allied Governments:

From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Nosek, Vladimír

A similar fate also met the wife of another Czech leader, Dr. Beneš, who escaped abroad in the autumn of 1915 and became secretary general of the Czecho-Slovak National Council.

From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Nosek, Vladimír

Namier, Professor Masaryk, Dr. Beneš, V. Nosek and others will be found in the weekly review of foreign politics, the New Europe, published by Messrs. Constable & Co.,

From Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty by Nosek, Vladimír

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