The Tukhachevsky affair and president Edvard Benes: Solutions and open questions

Soviet foreign policy in the West, 1936-1941: A review article

“…', instead of the question forwarded by Aleksandrovsky concerning Soviet support for Czechoslovakia in the League. 34 'It does not take much intelligence', says Lukes, 'to see that Aleksandrovsky's version is less plausible than Beneš's'. Lukes also claims that Litvinov 'carefully waited for Beneš to surrender before he said publicly that Moscow had given an affirmative answer to the president's [first] question …'.…”