We live not only with glass beads and other components and trimmings, but we are particularly proud of the common history betweeen Britain and Czechs and Slovaks. That is why we would like to commemorate this important moment for both our nations as well as for Europe.
During the Second World War the sixth floor of a Bayswater Road residential block, known as Porchester Gate, was the home of the Military Intelligence department of the Czechoslovak Army under the Czechoslovak Government in Exile. It was occupied from 1940 to 1945. They were linked to the Czech Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), and together they planned many SOE operations, most notably Operation Anthropoid - the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
The success of the operation made Great Britain and France renounce the Munich Agreement. They agreed that after the Nazis were defeated the Sudetenland would be restored to Czechoslovakia.
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