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...suicide of Jan Masaryk in Czechoslovakia today has a significance far beyond that of the loss of the man himself. Masaryk was almost universally accepted as a good man, and his death in the wake of the Communist revolution is a severe shock to the entire world, not only in its personal aspect, but in its symbolism as well. Many people will believe that any action which resulted in this man's suicide must necessarily be evil...
This deduction is not justified. Masaryk was a liberal middle class democrat of the best sort. He was in sympathy with the progress that was being made in his country. He clearly did not support those, reactionary forces which sought to check it. However, after the events of two weeks ago, he saw in Czechoslovakia the beginnings of a new type of society, a socialist society of workers and farmers, one in which the centuries-long cycle of exploitation was to be brought to a close. But this was also a society in which his class and the ideology...
...member of the Communist Party in the United States, I sincerely regret the death of Jan Masaryk. I regard him as representing the best of the bourgeois tradition, but I think that his death by no means signifies darkness in the future for Czechoslovakia, but rather progress toward a new and higher level of existence. Geoffrey White...
...suicide of Jan Masaryk leaves the Czech people with only Edward Bones as a symbol of their nation's affinity with the West, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, said yesterday, but it is too early to gauge how much force the aged and ailing President will be able to exert...
...week beginning March 7 (the anniversary of Thomas Masaryk's death) was proclaimed "Gottwald Week." The government proclaimed two days of veselice (general rejoicing) "to give the people a chance to express their gratitude." Flags were flown from all public buildings. Brass bands played in the streets for dancing. Movie houses stayed open all night and admission was free...