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...Prague and Paris, Benes was a dervish for study. At 16, the once pious Catholic boy had turned into an unkempt dogmatist. By the time he was 19, he had run the gamut of the philosophies of extremism, from Sorelian violence to Marxian materialism. Then he encountered Thomas Masaryk...
...late, great Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk was Czechoslovakia's George Washington. He and Benes first met at Prague's Charles University, and thereby began one of history's notable partnerships in thought, politics and statesmanship. Masaryk's influence turned the didactic radical into a tolerant democrat and eclectic rationalist. Eduard Benes began to practice the blending "art of synthesis." In his Charles University thesis, he essayed a prophetic conclusion: mankind must find a synthesis of its ideals in order to form a working formula for progress. Democracy, in particular, must find the correct compromise between individualism...
Conspirator & Statesman. World War I plunged young Dr. Benes from university teaching into political conspiracy. His objective, fathered by Masaryk: to form an independent republic amid the dissolution of the Habsburgs' crumbling Dual Monarchy...
...Prague, on Oct. 28, 1918, the National Council proclaimed the founding of the Czechoslovak Republic. As secretary-general of the National Council, Benes had striven for Allied recognition, helped recruit a Czechoslovak army abroad, served as the workhorse of his cause. "Without Benes," said President Masaryk, "we never would have had the Republic...
...almost two decades, first as Czechoslovak Foreign Minister and Masaryk's heir-apparent, then as President after the aging Masaryk's resignation in 1935, Dr. Benes labored at a synthesis that would ensure Central Europe's security. He built what he called a "temple of peace," based mainly on an alliance between France and Czechoslovakia, buttressed by the League of Nations...