Word: masaryks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile great Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, revered "Father of Czechoslovakia" (which is often called "the last European stronghold of genuine Democracy") has retired from its Presidency tranquil in his own mind that the so-called "dictators" of today are in fact a genuine expression in new guise of the popular will-that is of Democracy. Placing the tips of his old fingers together in the quiet of his study at Prague, piercing-eyed, piercing-minded Professor Masaryk-even though the Hitler dictatorship is an ever-present military threat to the Czechoslovak Republic-philosophically points out that the German people...
DEFENDER OF DEMOCRACY-Emil Ludwig-McBride ($3 ). Biography of Czechoslovakia's Grand Old Man, Thomas G. Masaryk, by the prolific German journalist-biographer...
Round as a biscuit is the floor of the private elevator of the President of Czechoslovakia and fixed in the centre is a stately chair for 85-year-old Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk,, onetime blacksmith's apprentice, "Father of Czechoslovakia...
...Foreign Minister of the firm of Masaryk & Benes which is Czechoslovakia, he has forged the three minor nations of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Rumania) into a unit armed to the teeth, which clicks and functions with the weight of important Power on the international scene. But Dr. Benes is not a hero to his political valets in Czechoslovakia. Last week Premier Milan Hodza in his handsome speech accepting the President's resignation avoided any pledge to support...
...Benes in the election Dec. 18. Since the wreck of the Habsburg Empire was in no small part the work of Dr. Masaryk, in Vienna last week the Neues Wiener Tagblatt exulted with Restorationists: "The foes of the Habsburgs pass! Lloyd George, for adequate reasons, was sentenced to political obscurity long ago. Wilson, Poincare, Clemenceau and Foch are dead. Masaryk has resigned...