My people will never abandon their democratic way of life: the irony of a Beneš speech of 1945

In the spring of 1945, just before he ended his six-year exile in Britain,
President Edvard Beneš gave an address in English that was broadcast by
the BBC. The fight to liberate Czechoslovakia was still under way, but by
now it was clear that the war was drawing to a close and Beneš was already
looking towards the post-war future of his country. A recording of the
historic speech was recently rediscovered in the Czech Foreign Ministry,
and is one of a number of archive broadcasts that David Vaughan has been
studying with his students from the Anglo-American University in Prague.