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...Prague, evidence at a murder trial purportedly revealed that the body of Jan Masaryk had been the object of a futile kidnap attempt, presumably to find out just what had really caused his death...
...Czechoslovakia created by Benes and his great chief, Thomas Masaryk, was by far the best of the little states. It was not good enough. Hitler accurately took its measure-and the measure of the great nations. Before Munich, Hitler had screamed: "Benes ... In that name is concentrated all that which today moves millions, which causes them to despair or fills them with a fanatical resolution. The decision now lies in his hands: Peace or War." Benes thought so, too. Later he wrote: "I had to decide whether to provoke the war or not . . ." He chose not to. Once again...
...nation in these words: "America's main objective was a quick victory followed by a quick return to normalcy. It was the normalcy of selfishness, nationalism and power politics." He blamed U.S. Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and U.S. policy for the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. He said of Jan Masaryk's suicide: "Maybe he had cancer." In all of his speeches, the U.S. is always wrong. He never attacks Russia; Russia, by implication, is always right. His way of solving the Berlin crisis is to give Berlin to the Russians...
...genius and one of the most brilliant of the expressionists. His ambitious, spectacular townscapes, painted from rooftops and turret windows, and signed "O.K.," found their way into museums all over Europe. He himself found his way into the homes of nobles and notables, doing portraits. Among his sitters: Thomas Masaryk, whom Kokoschka adored: "A dried, shriveled apple with a million wrinkles," he called him, "[but] a real aristocrat...
Actually, it mattered little whether Jan Masaryk had been killed or been driven to kill himself; he was a casualty of the Communists. One day last week Communist President Klement Gottwald made a gesture of exorcism. The new President and his wife drove to the little cemetery where Jan Masaryk is buried beside his great father Thomas. President and Mrs. Gottwald laid red roses on Jan Masaryk's grave. But the ghost still walked...