Belgium, Yugoslavia and Greece. The Czechoslovak Government, with its former  
President at its head, was once again recognised as the legal Government of a   
former state by almost all those governments and States who, before the outbreak   
of the second  World war, had maintained a strict neutrality or later entered   
the war against Germany, and did not recognise, on the one hand the settlement   
at Munich in September, 1938, and on the other hand the violent action taken   
by Nazi Germany contrary to all its commitments, in March, 1939, against the  
Czechoslovak Republic.
 
     
 
 
In this sense the full diplomatic and international recognition of   
Czechoslovakia was put into effect by Great Britain (including the majority   
of the Dominions) and the Soviet Union on July 18th, 1941, by the United States   
of America on July 31st, 1941, and by China on August 27th, 1941. Diplomatic   
relations and mutual recognition with Norway were established on October 12th,   
1940, with Poland on November 27th, 1940, with Belgium on December 13th, 1940,    
with Egypt on March 13th, 1941, with Holland on March 15th, I941, with Yugoslavia   
on May 19th, 194l, with Iraq on