1938; Prague; Czechoslovakia: Dr Emil Hacha; President of the High Court of Administration succeeds Edouard Benes as the third President of Czechoslovakia. Dr Emil Hacha; President of the High Court of Administration succeeds Edouard Benes as the third President of Czechoslovakia. Dr Hacha at his office in Prague; smokes cigars and reads important papers. A leading jurist of the dismembered republic of Czechoslovakia; Dr Hacha replaces Edouard Benes; who resigned following the ill-faired Munich Pact.