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...Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen, is today in the front line. . . . The Allied aircraft will often appear over your towns* and will bring you encouragement and assistance. . . . Do not submit!" A Czech Legion of 1,000 to fight with the Allies was being enlisted in London last week by Jan Masaryk, son of Czecho-Slovakia's late great Founder-President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Son Masaryk, unlike Dr. Benes, does not believe in the re-creation of Czecho-Slovakiain the old sense but as a federation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia within a customs union. Asked why he was not carrying...
...Also the birthplace of the late Anton J. Cermak, mayor of Chicago, assassinated in Florida six years ago. There also Czechoslovakia's first and revered President, Thomas G. Masaryk, made his first political speech...
...Russia a brilliant group of social theorists under Lenin struggled with rival theoricians, Tsarist generals, Allied intervention, for control of the former Russian Empire, but everywhere social experimentation-good or bad, radical or reactionary-was in the air. It was administered by politicians of a new type-professors like Masaryk, artists like Paderewski, literary figures like Kurt Eisner or D'Annunzio, trade unionists like Ebert, visionaries like Karolyi, soldiers like Pilsudski-and as they consolidated their power or went under, they fitted into a Europe in which the demand for peace dominated everything else...
...Garrigue Masaryk, son of Czechoslovakia's founder and its former Minister to Great Britain, now one of the many men without a country, bitterly told University of California students: "They operated on us at Munich and without an anesthetic. Then that man comes into the hospital and rapes us. To make a complete job of it, he then extracts the gold from our teeth...
...dusk his car climbed the hill to ancient Hradschin Castle. Slowly he ascended its stairs to his suite, rooms used by Thomas Masaryk and Eduard Benes, founders of the republic. Adolf Hitler's personal gold-bordered swastika was unfurled overhead, he stepped to a window and looked down on the twinkling lights of another subject city...