"[Germany
must keep] not a single plane, no navy, their war industry must be absolutely
broken up. A lot of blood will flow after the war. Many Germans will be killed
in your [Edvard Beneš] country [Czechoslovakia] as well—it cannot be helped and
I agree with it. After a few months we'll say "that's enough", and we
shall start on the work of peace: try the guilty men who stayed alive."
- Prime
Minister Winston S. Churchill, April 3, 1943, over lunch with Edvard Beneš
and Jan Masaryk.
Zbynék Zeman,
Antonín Klimek, The Life of Edvard Beneš, 1884-1948: Czechoslovakia in
Peace and War, New York: Oxford Uni. Press, 1997, p. 185.
The
Czechoslovakian diplomat Edward Taborsky quoted what Beneš stated after lunch
with Churchill:
"[the
British prime minister approved] in principle the transfer of population as
the only
possible solution of minority problems in Central Europe after the war."
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