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Show BENES RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT PRAGUE, Oct. 5 (U.R) President Presi-dent Eduard Benes resigned today to-day after a losing fight to prevent pre-vent German absorption of the Sudeten area of Czechoslovakia. The government was left for the time being in the hands of Premier Jan Syrovy, one-eyed World war hero, at the head of a reconstructed cabinet in which the Slovakian minority of the partly dismembered republic has been given stronger representation. Benes had been president of Czechoslovakia since December, 1935. He was leader of the Czech nationalist movement since World war days and one of the founders of the Little Entente. As chief delegate to the Versailles Ver-sailles peace conference, he sturdily sturd-ily promoted creation of the postwar post-war republic and staunchly defended de-fended it in the ensuing years at the League of Nations. Benes' policies incurred the bitter bit-ter enmity of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. Hit-ler. The fuehrer excoriated him in his receat Nuremberg and. Berlin Ber-lin speeches, denouncing him as an unscrupulous plotter and a liar. |