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On 26th February, 1948, a Communist Coup d´etat was staged in Prague and a new Protectorate set up. The Czech Nation
had been betrayed for the second time. The first time was in the autumn of 1938, when the President of the Czechoslovak Republic accepted, against the unanimous will of the Czech people, the Munich Agreement which o few months later unavoidably led to the occupation of the Czech Lands by the Germans and to the establishment of the „Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.“ The second betrayal happened in February, 1948, when, in spite of the evident anti-communist attitude of the majority of the Czech people, Dr. Edward Benes surrendered once more…
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After 69 years, finally unveiled in Prague monument to our RAF pilots - thanks to the British!
Unveiling of June 17, 2014, the great grandson of Winston Churchill's speech of Sir Nicholas Soames
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Apparently, Ex-president Benes made an agreement and borrowed against the Czechoslovakia's gold reserve. Then the gold disappeared. But did it really disappear? - It is interesting how the article on the 6,000,000 lbs. of Czechoslovak Gold states that the gold was transferred to Germans whereas there is evidence that President Benes in fact pledged the gold to Great Britain for use in financing Czechoslovak forces in Great Britain. It is surprising that no one has published this information, with the exception of me publication in 2014.
On December 10, 1940 a second agreement was signet regagrding the financing of Czechoslovak forces during the war. A key element of the agreement related to the use by the Provisional government of some Ł6,000,000 of Czechoslovak funds held by the Bank of England. The agreement invalidated German claims to the funds and established the necessary provisions for their use in the war effort. A credit of Ł7,500,000 was established with further amounts to be approved if necessary. In addition, the second agreement laid out plans and provisions „for preparation for Anglo-Czechoslovak co-operation for the Republic after the end of the war. … Finally, on July 18, 1941 Eden summoned Masaryk to the Foreign Office and handed him a note, in which the Britisch government officially recognized the Czechoslovak gevernment under the terms specified by Beneš. The note restored for Britain the former international status of Beneš and his goverment and opened the door for solution of future questions regarding the frontiers of Czechoslobakia, as well as postwar relations with Great Britain and other Allied governments. … Winston Churchill demanded to know how the government could ask its citizens to enlist in the military when it was “so butter-fingered that £6 million worth of gold can be transferred to the Nazi government.
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A Catholic Couple's Five-Year Search for Understanding 
It is not primarily about Jan Bata, but it has a chapter about him. It is chapter 5. The first 11 chapters are freely accessible, at the "Look Inside" link at Amazon, here:
There is also a paperback version, which it has not put up on Amazon as yet.
Jan Šinágl, 4.6.2014
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