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...President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk welcomed to Prague last week her who is the widow of President Thomas Woodrow Wilson...
Professor Masaryk remembers well that it was onetime Professor Wilson who, as President of the U. S., furthered the aspirations of Czechs and Slovaks at the peace conference, and secured recognition of the new state of Czechoslovakia by the Allies in the Treaty of St. Germain (Sept...
...peasant's son, a bad boy at school, at college a passionate disciple of Professor Masaryk, later a starveling pamphleteer at Paris, Dr. Benes was one of the first men to guess which way the World War would jump...
...fall of 1914 he sought Professor Masaryk with a fully drafted Czechoslovakian war program. Together they organized the Czech Mafia, a secret band of patriots who spied throughout Austria-Hungary during the War, providing Benes with material which he made the substance of dickers with the Allies. It was Benes who secured the recognition of the Czechoslovaks by the Allies (1917) as a people to be liberated from foreign rule. In 1918 he obtained from Balfour and Clemenceau recognition for Czechoslovakia, as "an Allied and Belligerent nation." At that time French publicist Fournal wrote: "Benes has destroyed Austria-Hungary...
Naturally this activity pivoted upon the Masaryk-Benes-initiated Czechoslovak revolutionary movement which they directed from Switzerland during the War. It is customary to regard Masaryk as the soul, Benes as the brain of their great achievement...