Hail & Farewell

President Eduard Senes was saying hail and farewell last week. He was saying hail to Czechoslovakia, to whose liberated areas he, his wife and more than a score of his ministers and aides were returning after six years in exile. He was saying farewell to the cabinet in exile. He also promised the homeland a new Government.

On the way to Kosice, which will be Czechoslovakia's capital until Prague is liberated, Benes will stop in Moscow to discuss matters with Joseph Stalin. Most likely successor to Premier Monsignor Jan Sramek, of the Czech People's Catholic Party, will be Vavro Srobar, a Slovak and an agrarian leftist. Other ministerial portfolios will go to a national front coalition, including Socialists (Benes' party), Communists (No. 4 party in pre-Munich Czechoslovakia), Social Democrats. Czech People's Catholics, Small Farmers (a leftist group) and the Slovak National Council (Slovak resistance).

In Moscow, it was reported, Benes would also deed the Czech province of Ruthenia to Russia, whose claims to it had not been stilled (as Czechs had hoped) by Czechoslovakia's hasty recognition of Poland's Warsaw Government.

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