What Russia's military defeats, the Revolution and the accession of Bolshevism have made it impossible for her to attain, Benes, in accord with the Pan-Serbs, whose spirit of imperialism and domination is also his own, has dedicated himself to accomplish. For fourteen years the scene has unrolled. Benes' dream is coming true. Danubian Confederation, directed by Prague, which Benes prophesied in 1917 would be an accomplished fact before twenty years. The men who do not see the immense peril to peace in the work of Benes are voluntarily blind.
Benes is sole master of Czechoslovakia.
President Mazaryk is only a powerless shadow. It was Benes who willed and committed all the violations of justice and right in the Danube valley which render war inevitable, if Europe does not impose a revision. The man has not changed in his ambitions and methods in the last fifteen years, save that his cleverness, his confidence in himself, and his will to dominate have increased with power. He is ever the proud realist whose unbridled imperialism in willing the future of his country, pushed the paper frontiers of the future Czechoslovakia to Budapest, and even to Berlin. This junction of the Czech and Serb Slavs is still a thing to be feared.