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The study examines the communists' share in separation of Carpathian Ruthenia from the Czechoslovak Republic between 1944 and 1945. It publishes a report of the Communist MP Josef Krosnar to the Department of International Information VKS(b). Krosnar was dispatched from Moscow to Carpathian Ruthenia in 1944 to work there for the party. His reports suggest that the communists, led by Ivan Turjanica, did not initiate Carpathian Ruthenia's separation movement, but favoured a policy of its autonomy within Czechoslovakia until late October 1944. They only adapted themselves to the situation after the movement increased and assumed leading roles, which brought all the political authority in the liberated territory of Carpathian Ruthenia to their hands. They took power in the newly created national committees and the supreme organ, the National Committee of Carpathian Ruthenia.
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The paper consists of two parts. In the first part, the author explains the political views of the above persons at the beginning of World War II in the general domestic and international context. The other part includes eleven documents thoroughly explaining the then political situation in and the foreign policy of Slovakia. Much attention is devoted to considerations of a potential restoration of Czechoslovakia as an independent country or within a larger confederation or federation with Poland, or even with Poland and Hungary. The material adds to our knowledge of the polarization of views of the Czecho-Slovak relations in connection with the formation of Czechoslovak foreign resistance movement during World War II.
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The study deals with the assassination of Acting Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, its significance and consequences: the second martial law, destruction of two Czech villages, Lidice and Lezaky, and executions of Czech patriots. These events had a strong impact on the international public opinion and contributed to the demand for punishing the Nazi war crimes. President Edvard Benes and the Czechoslovak exile government in London played an important role in that. Attention focuses on the Czechoslovak exile government in London discussing the situation in the Protectorate and on its subsequent activities in this matter in relation to the Allies that contributed to Great Britain's withdrawal from the Munich Agreement early in August 1942. Part of the study is also the edition of important documents related to that matter, particularly the two declarations of the Czechoslovak government drawing the attention of the allied states to the Nazi persecution in the Protectorate.
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The Munich Agreement hit the Czechoslovak state very hard. Its economic consequences were expected to be partly solved by a financial loan granted by two of its signatories, France and Great Britain. Sir Frederick Leith Ross as Chief Economic Advisor to the British Government played a very important role in the negotiations. The loan ought to solve both the question of economic reconstruction of Czechoslovakia after the cession of industrially developed regions and the interruption of transportation ways, and that of financial aid to the refugees from Czechoslovakia. The talks between the Czechoslovak and British government delegations started in mid-October 1938 and their first material result was an advance of 10 million pounds granted by the British party to the National Bank of Czechoslovakia. After further difficult negotiations about the loan a three-party agreement between Great Britain, France and Czecho-Slovakia on funds to be granted to Czecho-Slovakia was signed on 27th January, 1939, according to which a total loan of 12 million pounds was agreed, out of which 4 million pounds constituted a special gift to support the refugees and the remaining 8 million pounds were primarily intended to create the conditions needed to accommodate the refugees from ceded regions. Unfortunately, the German aggression against Czecho-Slovakia of March, 1939 made it impossible to make full use of the loan.
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