Republic never ceased to exist in an international respect,  
and this view was shared by a number of other States. Great  
Britain and the United States of America, for example, never  
recognised de Jure the events of March 1939 as instanced by  
the continued recognition of the Czechoslovak Legations in  
London and Washington. Further, by the development of events  
in the war the representatives of the Czechoslovak people  
in the Allied countries were then enabled to establish, on  
the basis of the irreconcilable opposition of all sections  
of the Czechoslovak people at home to the Germans, an organised  
military and political movement; this movement which created  
its national army and a Czechoslovak Government, was then  
granted in July, 1940, Juridical recognition in a political  
and international respect as the Government and Army of an  
Allied nation and State waging war with Nazi Germany and as  
the rightful political representative of the Czechoslovak  
people at home and of the Czechoslovak State.
 
     
 
 
For it should be noted that from July, 1940,  
onwards the Czechoslovak State and its internationally  
recognised Government acquired once more their former rights  
and were, in respect of international law, restored to the