I. On January 7th, 1941, a communication was transmitted   
by President E. Benes to His Grace Msgr.W.Godfrey,  
the apostolic representative in Great Britain, emphasising  
the following points :
 
     
 
 
Immediately after the Armistice /in 1918/,  
I entered, as Foreign Minister of the Republic, into diplomatic   
relations with the Holy See and began negotiations  
regarding the delimitations of the dioceses,the Church property,   
etc. There were many difficulties : in 1924, and again in 1927   
new and very serious disturbances occurred in this sphere. But in   
1927 I definitely succeeded in settling all those questions, in   
creating a definitive Juridical basis for future relations :   
the so-called modus vivendi between the Holy See and the Czechoslovak  
Republic was agreed upon, and normal and friendly relations