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...daily (eight-hour) fare. ABSIE broadcast the news in seven languages, and also presented at dictation speed a special program of news for the use of the underground press. ABSIE puffed up its straight news reports with talks by such exiled leaders as King Haakon and Jan Masaryk...
Early this week the U.S. and British delegations considered the disagreement "critical." Arthur Vandenberg, whose support would be essential to Senate ratification of the charter, was telling friends he would "take the first plane out" if the Russians had their way. Czechoslovakia's Jan Masaryk was one of a calm minority when he said: "The conference is going well. Don't worry too much; but worry a little...
There were Beneses and a Masaryk-two nephews of Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Benes and Czech Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk, ebullient, democratic son of the late Founder-President Thomas Masaryk...
...Government, called the National Committee of Liberation, was scarcely more Communist than its program. Out of 17 Cabinet officers, five were Communists. Among the nonCommunists: Foreign Minister Josip Smodlaka, friend of Czechoslovakia's late, great Thomas Masaryk, onetime Yugoslav Minister to the Vatican; the Rev. Vlado Zecevic, Minister of the Interior (and hence in charge of the police). Minister Zecevic was an Orthodox priest who commanded a detachment of Chetniks until late 1941, when he switched from Mihailovich to Tito...
...clearer rang another call across the mountains and valleys. Over the radio from London came the voice of Jan Masaryk, son of the nation's founder...