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Also Known As Eduard Benes
Born May 28, 1884 • Austria-Hungary
Died September 3, 1948 (aged 64) • Czechoslovakia
Title / Office president (1935-1938), Czechoslovakia • foreign minister (1918-1935), Czechoslovakia

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