With two exceptions, 89 of the Beneš decrees, edicts, laws and statutes, along with extensive pages of instruction for their enforcement, are kept valid by their continued existence in the statutes of the Czech Republic ( 1993 ) and the Slovak Republic ( 1993 ).

Brzezinski is married to Czech-American sculptor Emilie Benes ( grand-niece of the second Czechoslovak president, Edvard Beneš ), with whom he has three children.

At first, Hitler demanded then president Edvard Beneš hand over that region of the country, but Beneš refused.

Shortly after the anschluss of Austria to Germany, Henlein met with Hitler in Berlin on 28 March 1938, where he was instructed to raise demands unacceptable to the Czechoslovak government led by president Edvard Beneš.

Henlein met with Hitler in Berlin on 28 March 1938, where he was instructed to raise demands unacceptable to the Czechoslovak government led by president Edvard Beneš.

In November 1938, Emil Hácha — succeeding Beneš — was elected president of the federated Second Republic, renamed Czecho-Slovakia and consisting of three parts: Bohemia and Moravia, Slovakia, and Carpatho-Ukraine.

Edvard Beneš had resigned as president of the first Czechoslovak Republic on 5 October 1938 after the Nazi coup.

The government in exile — with Beneš as president of republic — was set up in June 1940 in exile in London, with the President living at Aston Abbotts.

Beneš resigned on 2 June, and Gottwald became president 12 days later.

In April, for example, Beneš wrote to a county president in Slovakia: " I had a conflict with Štefánik.

On June 29 the government of France officially acknowledged the right of Czech and Slovaks to independence, and the next day both regiments took an oath of allegiance in presence of the French president, Raymond Poincaré, as well as Czechoslovak independence movement officials, including Edvard Beneš.

He served as an advisor to Edvard Beneš, the exiled Czech president in London, until the Nazis were defeated.

The first festival was held under the patronage of Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš, and its organizing committee was made up of important figures in Czech musical life.

The next president, Edvard Beneš, tried to follow the direction set by Masaryk and kept Hrad above and outside political parties.

Edvard Beneš, the second president of Czechoslovakia, was born in Kožlany in 1884.

# Edvard Beneš – second Czechoslovak president ( 1935 – 1938, in exile 1940 – 1945, 1945 – 1948 )

Her mother, of Czech descent, is a grandniece of Czechoslovakia's former president Edvard Beneš.

After freedom from Austrian rule and the establishment of the Czechoslovak republic in 1918, Vojta Beneš was active as both an educator and public servant.

Both Czechoslovak leaders Jan Masaryk and Edvard Beneš expressed the opinion that the frontier between Poland and Germany could not be treated as final, and supported German revisionist claims towards Poland.

* Jan Beneš ( 1936-2007 ), Czech writer, translator, publicist and screenwriter

* Jan Beneš ( born 1987 ), Czech orienteering competitor, and junior world champion.

* Jan Syrový ( 1888 – 1970 ), general and Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia during the Munich Crisis ( September – December 1938 ), as well as acting President following the resignation of Edvard Beneš

* Jan Palach Park – established in 1890 in connection with the building of the Langr Villa, in 1946 was named for Edvard Beneš and opened to the public.

Among the contributors and editors of the old Lidové noviny, there were Karel Čapek, Josef Čapek, Richard Weiner, Eduard Bass, Karel Poláček, Rudolf Těsnohlídek, Jiří Mahen, Jan Drda, Václav Řezáč and the presidents Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš.

** Radek Zavadil, Pavel Sokol, Petr Blecha, Jan Beneš, Pavel Menšík, Ondřej Holeček, Jiří Šefčík, Dušan Businský, cox Jiří Pták

According to Time Magazine, former Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kavan argued, " Why should we single out the Beneš Decrees ?...

Her father, Josef Korbel, was a Czech Jewish diplomat and supporter of the early Czech democrats, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk and Edvard Beneš.

He returned to Paris at the end of 1915 where he became acquainted with Edvard Beneš and renewed his association with his former professor Tomáš Masaryk.

Thanks to his diplomatic skills, Štefánik helped Masaryk and Beneš to meet and obtain the support of some of the most important personalities of the Triple Entente.

At the same time, severe quarrels arose between Štefánik and Beneš ( but also Masaryk ), mainly around the position of Slovakia within Czechoslovakia.

Masaryk, Czechoslovakia's first President, and his successor Edvard Beneš claimed that the treaty was a fabrication and resisted Hlinka's demands.

Some of the people he had some contact with included Heinrich Brüning, Basil Liddell Hart, Franz von Papen, John Buchan, Carl Friedrich Goerdeler, Leon Trotsky, Hans von Seeckt, Max Hoffmann, Lewis Bernstein Namier, Benito Mussolini, Robert Bruce Lockhart, Karl Radek, Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart, Kurt von Schleicher, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Tomáš Masaryk, Engelbert Dollfuss, the former Kaiser Wilhelm II, Adam von Trott zu Solz, Louis Barthou, Lord Lothian, Winston Churchill, and Dr. Edvard Beneš.

During the war, Steed befriended anti-Habsburg émigrés such as Edvard Beneš, Ante Trumbić, Tomáš Masaryk and Roman Dmowski and advised the British government to seek the liquidation of Austria-Hungary as a war aim.

Coudenhove-Kalergi had less success with Tomáš Masaryk, who referred him to his uncooperative Prime Minister Edvard Beneš.

From 2003, the senior member of the princely branch, Prince Ulrich's son Franz Ulrich sued the Czech Republic for return of the properties confiscated in 1945 under the Beneš decrees only because, he maintained, that the confiscation implicitly labeled his family as historical traitors against Czechoslovakia and as willful collaborators during the Nazi occupation.

Albright spent the war years in England, while her father worked for Beneš ’ s Czechoslovak government-in-exile.

In 1943, Czechoslovakian leader in exile Edvard Beneš agreed to Stalin's demands for unconditional agreement with Soviet foreign policy, including the expulsion of over one million Sudeten ethnic Germans identified as " rich people " and ethnic Hungarians, directed by the Beneš decrees.

The political elite, connected with former President Edvard Beneš, had to leave office and Chvalkovský became foreign minister.

In the end, Tătărescu became involved in negotiations aimed at withdrawing Romania from the conflict, and, while beginning talks with the Romanian Communist Party ( PCR ), tried to build foreign connections to support Romania's cause following the inevitable defeat ; he thus corresponded with Edvard Beneš, leader of the Czechoslovak government in exile in England.

Before the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, in 1943, Czechoslovakian leader in exile Edvard Beneš agreed to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's demands for unconditional agreement with Soviet foreign policy and the Beneš decrees.

The Czechoslovakian foreign policy under Edvard Beneš shied however from signing a formal alliance with Poland that would force Czechoslovakia to take sides in the Polish-German territorial disputes.