Czechoslovak government-in-exile
The Czechoslovak government-in-exile, sometimes styled officially as the Provisional Government of Czechoslovakia (Czech: Prozatímní vláda Československa, Slovak: Dočasná vláda Československa), was an informal title conferred upon the Czechoslovak National Liberation Committee (Czech: Výbor Československého Národního Osvobození, Slovak: Československý Výbor Národného Oslobodenia), initially by British diplomatic recognition. The name came to be used by other Allied governments during the Second World War as they subsequently recognised it. The committee was originally created by the former Czechoslovak President, Edvard Beneš in Paris, France, in October 1939.[1] Unsuccessful negotiations with France for diplomatic status, as well as the impending Nazi occupation of France, forced the committee to withdraw to London in 1940. The Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile offices were at various locations in London but mainly at a building called Fursecroft, Marylebone.
Provisional Government of CzechoslovakiaProzatímní státní zřízení
Dočasné štátne zriadenie
Dočasné štátne zriadenie
30 September 1938
15 March 1939
5 April 1945
It was regarded as the legitimate government for Czechoslovakia throughout the Second World War by the Allies.[2] A specifically anti-Fascist government, it sought to reverse the Munich Agreement and the subsequent German occupation of Czechoslovakia, and to return the Republic to its 1937 boundaries. As such it was ultimately considered, by those countries that recognized it, the legal continuation of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
List of presidents of Czechoslovakia[edit]
Edvard Beneš (October 1939–2 April 1945)
List of prime ministers of Czechoslovakia[edit]
Jan Šrámek (21 July 1940 – 5 April 1945)