Czech Government Gets To Work

In a Mayfair house, 114, Park Street, W. I, Dr. Benes is setting up the machinery of the Provisional Czechoslovak Government, formally recognized by Britain on July 23. Within a day several members of the new Cabinet were sworn in, including M. Jan Masaryk, former Minister in London, who is to be Minister of Foreign Affairs. The main effort of the new Government will be the organisation of Czech forces on land and in the air, so as to take their share in the defence of Britain and the defeat of Nazism. On July 26 Dr. Benes inspected and addressed the remnant of the Czech Legion, now withdrawn from France and collected in a camp in North-West England.

Dr Benes on the right watches a member of his cabinet take the oath of office.

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August 1940