Word: masaryk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buenos Aires, Statesmen Poincare and Irigoyen will undoubtedly enjoy comparing notes on a subject about which many men of their age, including many of the world's rulers, have personal experience: King George of England, President Doumergue of France, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia. King Haakon of Norway. King Fuad of Egypt...
...began President Masaryk, according to Dr. Rajniss, "an old man from whose eyes the veil of political passion has long since melted. I urge the people of Hungary to listen to my proposals while I am yet alive...
...Czech Masaryk allegedly went on to say that his proposals were submitted some months ago in a confidential note to Hungary's steely-eyed little dictator. Count Stephen Bethlen, who ignored them. Seemingly last week the Patriarch of Prague was unsheathing against Count Bethlen the same bright weapon of open propaganda openly arrived at which he wielded mightily during the War until the Powers agreed that Czechoslovakia ought and must become an independent state. Like his good friend Herbert Clark Hoover, Thomas Garrigue Masaryk works by mobilizing public opinion behind "the moral and spiritual values." Last week he declared...
Having made these generous proposals President Masaryk sternly declared, according to Dr. Rajniss, that he is aware of certain secret overtures recently made by Dictator Count Stephen Bethlen to Rumania with a view to enlisting that country's aid in wresting back all Czechoslovakia's once Hungarian territory, including Bratislava. "The Rumanian Government have loyally revealed these facts to us," President Masaryk was declared to have concluded, "But . . . we still prefer to achieve a friendly agreement with Hungary...
Czechoslovakia's official press service soon fulminated that President Masaryk had never spoken as quoted by Dr. Rajniss, did not deny that the interview had taken place, could not down widespread belief that the President had sent up a trial balloon...