Word: czernin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Damned, Damned Communists. That night the lights in Masaryk's third-floor apartment in Czernin Palace burned all night. Next morning, his father's old worn Hussite Bible was found open by his bed. The upturned page was part of the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians, and verses 22 and 23 of chapter 5 had been marked. They read: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." His body was found at 6:20 by a guard on the stone-flagged court...
...Prague, death clothed Jan Masaryk with a renewed dignity. Two weeks before, Prague residents had muttered: "He's no fighter. Must be staying because he likes the job." But while his body lay in state in Czernin Palace, people did not conceal their feelings. Five peasant women leaned over a balustrade in the palace; one of them said loudly: "The damned, damned Communists killed him. They are worse than the Nazis...