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...Masaryk's Dream. Post-War history has already chosen as its darling "The Lonely Slovak in Prague."* With Wilson dead, Clemenceau withered and Lloyd George second-fiddling, it has become evident how great is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still the only president of the Czechoslovak Republic...
...this volume President Masaryk traces arrestingly the steps whereby he dreamed and wrought his country out of Austria-Hungary. Prior to the War he was, among Czechs & Slovaks at Prague in Austria-Hungary, only a professor, only a deputy. Yet a lionheartedness was in him, and perhaps a serpentine wisdom. By sheer, imperious leadership he welded friends, then students, then political adherents into an orderly group. It stood ready to follow and acknowledge his supremacy when the War brought an opportunity to strike for Czechoslovak freedom. As to just how this vital group was formed Professor Masaryk is regrettably...
...technology.'' He concluded ably: "I have seen only three great men in Europe this year. One is Bernard Shaw, far greater as an educator than a playwright; another is Einstein, who changed the fundamental ideas of our entire world, and the third, perhaps the greatest of all, is President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, who first dreamed his nation, then made it, and then governed...
...President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, at Prague, President Coolidge cabled congratulations on Oct. 28, the 9th anniversary of Czeschoslovakia's independence...
With the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 Anton Smetona, like Thomas Garrigue Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, with whom he is frequently compared, began to wage a private war for Lithuanian republicanism. The signal chance for the Lithuanian minority in colossal Russia had dawned. By spoken and written word Smetona worked fearlessly for the liberation of his people from the yoke of despotism, resisting equally the Germans, who at one time threatened to end his cherished ideal of a free Lithuania...