Word: masaryk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month after Dunkirk. In London he edited a small Free Czech Army daily, made BBC broadcasts, married a British girl, served in the Allied invasion of France and became a lieutenant in SHAEF's psychological warfare branch. At war's end, his good friend, the late Jan Masaryk, made him a press officer in Prague's foreign ministry. When the Reds seized power in 1948, Josten got his wife out by plane on a forged passport, then slipped across the border into Western Germany. Reaching London again, he and his wife got a Mimeograph machine and began...
Exhausted from his experiences, Sorokin stayed with Jan Masaryk for a short time in Czechoslovakia. "He was a truly great man,' says Sorokin. "He did not lose his simplicity throughout his whole life." In 1923, Sorokin was invited to come to Vassar, and delivered his first lecture after three weeks in the United States. "My accent is atrocious now, but it was super-atrocious then," he laughs...
...London auctioneer disposed of the last effects from the English home of Czechoslovakia's late Jan Masaryk, lover of life, who plunged to his death from an office window in Prague three years ago, as the Reds were taking over his country. Two of Masaryk's favorite sheepskin jackets, trimmed with fluffy white wool and decorated with black and red sprays of brilliantly embroidered flowers, plus a felt coat and a pillow cover, fetched ?32. Other clothing, including a pair of shoes, three net scarves with lace borders, a child's white skirt and bodice...
...names were still there. The apartment door bore the wife's name, Lida Clementisova, while the directory in the lobby listed the name of the husband Vladimir Clementis. Clementis was Foreign Minister, following the defenestrated Jan Masaryk, until he was ousted himself (TIME, March 27, 1950) for "losing faith in Stalin...
Premier Alcide de Gasperi: "Italy has accepted its duties and its place in the political array of the world after an accurate examination of its ideas, its interests and its geopolitical position. If she wavered, if she betrayed intrinsic and explicit loyalties, she would finish as Masaryk and Benes finished...