Word: masaryk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Masaryk has written and will shortly publish his memoirs. The book, which will also appear in English, will deal with the story of the Czecho-Slovakian struggle for independence during the Great War, and will throw new light on the diplomatic pourparlers that led up to the recognition of the new State by the Allies...
Formerly a member of the Austrian Reichsrat (State Council), President Masaryk fled from Austria on the outbreak of war to work for the delivery of Czecho-Slovakia. He worked hard toward this end and finally, before a visit to the United States in the summer of 1918, he secured Allied recognition of the Provisional Government of Czecho-Slovakia?the recognition of a Government over a country that did not exist. His triumph was not delayed, for on Oct. 28, 1918, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Narodni Vybor (National Council) took over the governments of the countries...
Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, son of a poor gamekeeper on one of the imperial estates in Moravia, is married to an American. He was a student at the Universities of Prague Vienna and Leipzig; later, while still a young man, he was appointed a professor in Prague University...
...came to shoot over the Moravian estate. This company were in the habit of leaving their costly cloaks, which represented a fortune to the peasant, in his father's cottage. While the shoot was on the peasants used to gather round to admire the resplendent garments, but little Tommy Masaryk alone refused to look at them, saying: " I do not like to see those things." Later, explaining his feelings, he said: "I felt there was something radically wrong. Just what was not clear to me. Such a hate I had that it lasted until today...
...Olympic Games, the International Committee resolved to bar Germany. It was pointed out that the spectacle of German athletes in the Grand Parade of the Nations might stir more than the memories of those present in the Paris Stadium. Russia, too, was barred. By invitation of President Masaryk of the CzechoSlovak Republic, the Olympic Congress of 1925 will be held in Prague. Pope Pius granted an audience to the International Olympic Committee and praised their efforts for clean, moral sport...