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What happened early that morning of March 10, 1948 in the third-floor, right-wing apartment of the Foreign Ministry in Prague? Afterward, when the body lay in the morgue, the new Red regime made its announcement: Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk was so depressed by letters from British and U.S. friends denouncing him for collaborating with the Communists that he climbed through the small window of his bathroom and plunged 60 feet to a stone-flagged courtyard...
...first big chance as a sculptor came in World War I, when he got the notion of modeling a "plastic history" of the times. Masaryk, Pershing, Foch, Clemenceau...
...traditional diplomatic hope that he would be able to help make relations between the two countries more cordial. The President sharply replied that the best way to do that was to release Reporter Oatis. "The President said further that relations between our two countries had deteriorated ever since Jan Masaryk [Czech Foreign Minister at the time of the Communist coup] was murdered." (No other government has ever before officially challenged the Communist story that Masaryk committed suicide. Short, in his account, stressed the word "murdered.") It looked as if U.S.-Czech relations would not be what they once had been...
...month after Dunkirk. In London he edited a small Free Czech Army daily, made BBC broadcasts, married a British girl, served in the Allied invasion of France and became a lieutenant in SHAEF's psychological warfare branch. At war's end, his good friend, the late Jan Masaryk, made him a press officer in Prague's foreign ministry. When the Reds seized power in 1948, Josten got his wife out by plane on a forged passport, then slipped across the border into Western Germany. Reaching London again, he and his wife got a Mimeograph machine and began...
Exhausted from his experiences, Sorokin stayed with Jan Masaryk for a short time in Czechoslovakia. "He was a truly great man,' says Sorokin. "He did not lose his simplicity throughout his whole life." In 1923, Sorokin was invited to come to Vassar, and delivered his first lecture after three weeks in the United States. "My accent is atrocious now, but it was super-atrocious then," he laughs...