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Last week Czechoslovakia's playboy Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk answered a toast to the "United Nations" at a swank London lunch by warning his colleagues against "too many cocktail parties." To an acquaintance, Masaryk commented: "Coming from me, that sounds pretty funny...
...brave inching toward a better world had not yet changed other men as much as Masaryk. In their official Journal, delegates found a familiar little list of items absentmindedly left behind in their various London meeting places: two keys, two spectacle cases (empty), one Elizabeth Arden lipstick, one entrance pass No. 10156, two pipes, one bracelet, one book titled Miami, one brown gauntlet glove, three pen tops, one copy of Hymns Ancient and Modern...
Anthony Eden preferred to be No. 2 man in Britain's Tory Party. Tubby Paul-Henri Spaak, who hopes to be Premier of Belgium, showed no interest in the job. Neither did Czechoslovakia's Jan Masaryk...
...middleway revolution, have made no move to seize power or to upset the balance envisioned by Dr. Benes. But they hold solid posts in all the key strata of the nation's life-in the Government, army, trade unions, cooperatives, nationalized industry. They are still authoritarians. They flank Masaryk's portrait with Lenin and Stalin...
Ebullient Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, 59, son of the great Thomas Masaryk, is a nonpartisan in domestic politics but a western democrat in outlook. Unassuming Dr. Petr Zenkl, 61, Lord Mayor of Prague, old crony of Dr. Benes, is one of the ablest and most popular of Socialist leaders. Shrewd Antonin Zapotocki, Communist boss of the powerful, well-disciplined central trade unions council (U.R.O.), is in the thick of the nationalization program. Workers committees chosen by the U.R.O. will help the Government to manage confiscated factories, allocate manpower, speed up production...