² Der betreffende Abschnitt in „The New Order in Europe” lautet: „The problem of national minorities will have to be considered far more systematically and radically than it was after the last war. I accept the principle of the transfer of populations. Populations were exchanged, successfully and on a large scale, between Greece und Turkey after the war of 1922. The world courageously accepted this largescale transfer, because it knew that the alternative would have been a systematic massmurder of millions of people. If the problem is carefully considered and wide measures are adopted in good time, the transfer can be made amicably under decent human conditions, under international control and with international Support.” — Den Versuch, die Austreibung sozial-revolutionär zu rechtfertigen, macht Beneš vor allem in seinen Memoiren (s. S. 212, 218). Er nennt hier drei Gruppen von Deutschen, deren Vertreibung die notwendige soziale Revolution befördern würde: „the German bourgoisie, the pan-German intelligentsia and those workers, who have gone over to Fascism”.