in their note to the Czechoslovak Government of August 5th,  
1942, stated that they regarded themselves as free from any  
engagements in respect of the arrangements concerning Czechoslovakia   
reached in 1938 at Munich. The French National Committee presided   
over by General do Gaulle took similar action. The Soviet Government,   
too, has expressly recognised the Czechoslovak Republic within the   
frontiers from the period before September, 1938. The other States   
and nations did not participate in the Munich settlement.  The violent   
occupation of Carpathian Ruthenia by Hungary in 1939 has not been   
recognised by any of the above-mentioned States de Jure.
 
     
 
 
V. The Czechoslovak people and later the newly recognised Government   
of the Czechoslovak Republic followed with particular attention the   
course adopted by the Holy See with regard to Czechoslovak affairs   
during the present terrible international crisis. They gratefully   
welcomed the action of the Holy See with regard to the occupation of   
the Archbishopric of Prague after the death of His Eminence Cardinal   
Kaspar. They fully realised the