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Dr Edvard Benes, Czechoslovakian statesman, 1935. Benes was a leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement and the second President of Czechoslovakia. He was forced to resign in 1938 after the Munich Agreement gave the Sudetenland to Nazi Germany. Restored as President after his country was liberated from the Nazis in 1945, he once again resigned in 1948 when Prime Minister Klement Gottwald engineered a Communist takeover of Czechoslovakia. A print from a supplement to The New Statesman and Nation, 30th November 1935.