Who is eduard benes

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Subscriber sign in You could not be signed in, please check and try again. Username Please enter your Username. However, he did not return home until September , for already in November he had to go to Paris in order to secure the previously non-existent southern Slovak border, and to extricate Slovakia from Hungary, as well as to procure the recognition of the historical borders of the Czech State.

At that time, Czechoslovakia emerged in a new state form never existing before, on the basis of Woodrow Wilson's principle of nations' rights for self-determination, which was, however, acknowledged only to the purposefully defined Czechoslovak nation in the new state.

This concept, accepted to this date by most of the Czech nationals as natural and just, Benes vindicated in Peace Convents of and , and as a creator of the Czechoslovak foreign politics he endeavoured to secure it by international pacts. Edvard Benes was present at the inception of the League of Nations, and as its deputy chairman , member of the Board in and member of the Security Council, and its chairman he supported the principle of collective security. In , Benes founded the Little Alliance with Yugoslavia and Romania, and in , he negotiated an alliance treaty with the post-war European power, the France.

He was a renowned person at important international conferences e. Although his primary domain was foreign affairs, he also played an important role in internal matters.

From the inception of the State, Edvard Benes was Minister of Foreign Affairs, and in the years to and to , he was en elected member of the National Assembly, including Prime Minister in the years to Following president T. As the vice chairman of the Czechoslovak National Socialist Party Benes was its member in to , he had a profound influence over its policies.

He rejected Marxism, but adhered to socialist ideas, the "overall development towards agricultural and workers democratism as well as natural and unavoidable weakening of the municipal bourgeoisie influence" he considered as one of the important results of the World War I.

His opinions disallowed him to fully understand totalitarian principle of the Bolshevism, although he disagreed with it. In his endeavour to firmly anchor the security of the State, he tried to abolish the international isolation of the U. When this was successfully accomplished, he closed an Alliance Treaty with the U.

Shortly after that Munich treaty took place in Sign up. Publications Pages Publications Pages. Recently viewed 0 Save Search. Users without a subscription are not able to see the full content. Authors Affiliations are at time of print publication. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Show Summary Details. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. DOI : Version 1. Table of Contents 1 Breaking up the Habsburg Empire 1. A political biography of the Czech democrat , 2 volumes , Prague Karolinum.

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