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...dust of Gottwald & Co.'s departure from Lany had not settled when Masaryk's black Packard pulled up at the little white-fenced cemetery. His grey Homburg in his hand, Jan Masaryk stood staring at his father's grave, at the clusters of farm buildings that dotted the countryside, and suddenly he bent over and began to sob. For 45 minutes he wept. On his way back to Prague he muttered over & over: "For me nothing matters now. I only wish I could do something for the nation...
...Thomas Masaryk had said...
...days after his visit to his father's grave, on a bright sunny afternoon, Jan Masaryk went to see Benes at his peaceful country home. They remained alone for an hour, talking. During the two intervening days Masaryk had complained repeatedly of insomnia. When he left Benes' country home for the 60-mile drive back to Prague, Masaryk offered his bodyguard a cigarette. "I can't smoke on duty," said the guard. "You can smoke with me," said Masaryk. He took a puff or two, stamped it out, and slumped in sleep. He awoke...
...Damned, Damned Communists. That night the lights in Masaryk's third-floor apartment in Czernin Palace burned all night. Next morning, his father's old worn Hussite Bible was found open by his bed. The upturned page was part of the Epistle of Paul to the Galatians, and verses 22 and 23 of chapter 5 had been marked. They read: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." His body was found at 6:20 by a guard on the stone-flagged court...
Most of the indications pointed to suicide. Some skeptics insisted it was another case of Bohemia's famed "forcible defenestration."* Whether it was suicide or murder, the fact was that Jan Masaryk had become enmeshed in exactly the kind of trap his father had warned against: he had been destroyed by trying to compromise with forces with which no man could compromise...