Word: masaryk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every alert U. S. citizen remembers that President Woodrow Thomas Wilson was the Godfather of Czechoslovakia. Without his decisive intervention the new state might have been snuffed out as soon as born. But of course every Czech and Slovak knows that the Father of Czechoslovakia is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still President of the Republic...
Professor Masaryk's egotism is as titanic as his achievements. Single-handed he built up the marvelous organization of propagandists, spies and deserters who finally erected themselves into the nucleus of a state. True, Professor Masaryk was indispensably assisted by Dr. Edouard Benes, now Foreign Minister, but none the less Professor Masaryk is the Father of Czechoslovakia. His propagandists are become statesmen, his spies heroes, his deserters officers in the Army of the Republic...
...Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was not idly boasting, last week, when he said to a U. S. correspondent on the tenth birthday of Czechoslovakia: "I wish it were possible for me to take a quiet evening stroll past our new statue of President Wilson [in Prague]. They tell me it looks splendid under the floodlights at night. But alas I am always recognized and overwhelmed with public adulation...
...enough, it could not be celebrated by the two famed founders of the Soviet State: Lenin & Trotsky. Dead is Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, called "Lenin" (TIME, Jan. 28). Banished is Leiba Bronstein, called "Leon Trotsky" (TIME, Jan. 30). Today Red Russia is dominated by a Dictator more egotistical than even Masaryk, more ruthless than even Kemal. He is Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili. Because his inflexible will is like tempered metal, the great Lenin called him "Stalin." meaning "Steel." When the eleventh Red Birthday was celebrated. Comrade Citizens rejoiced, gamboled and swigged vodka*-but Stalin remained as usual coldly, inscrutably...
...Nagy added from Budapest that the Hungarian Courts have refused to revise their verdict that Count Karolyi is guilty of High Treason in surrendering Hungary to the Allies, in the last days of the War, although General Erich von Ludendorff of Germany and President Masaryk...