<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Beneš" id="mw9g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edvard Beneš">Edvard Beneš</a> resigns as <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Czechoslovakia" id="mw9w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="List of Presidents of Czechoslovakia">President</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovakia" id="mw-A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Czechoslovakia">Czechoslovakia</a> rather than signing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth-of-May_Constitution" id="mw-Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ninth-of-May Constitution">Ninth-of-May Constitution</a>, making his nation a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_state" id="mw-g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Communist state">Communist state</a>.