of other States. Great Britain and the United States of America,   
for example, never recognised the act of violence which the German   
Government committed on March 15th,1939, by bringing the Czech   
territories into the scope of the Nazi Reich and proclaiming Slovakia   
as an independent State under the Protectorate of Berlin. Further, by the  
development of events in the war the representatives of the Czechoslovak   
people in the Allied countries were then on the basis of the irreconciable  
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 from the period before