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...with leaders of student opinion and aid was given to the Student Council in starting a forum which would be open to all undergraduates and would bring in speakers of national importance to deal with timely issues. It was largely due to the efforts of this committee that Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of the Czech government in exile, was brought here to address the student body. Student representatives have also been invited to sit in on the weekly meetings of the Steering Committee...
Several other big-name voices will be heard, among them Edward R. Murrow, CBS London commentator, and Harold Laski, well-known British socialist and former instructor at Harvard. The unrehearsed discussion will open a series of Network exclusives in the Boston area, which are to include talks by Jan Masaryk, and other outstanding European statesmen on post-war problems...
...Honest Tony" Eden and earnest Eduard Benes were the pallbearers, and there were two requiems: one by Eden in the House of Commons, one by Czechoslovak Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk via radio to his countrymen. Thus was decent burial finally provided for a smelly old corpse, the Munich Agreement...
...radio requiem suave-spoken Masaryk stressed the point and jubilated: "So . . . everything that was not clear is finished. . . . The pre-Munich Republic will take its seat at the peace conference...
...Teeth for One? The nerves of Czechs in exile neared the snapping point. In Washington, Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk of the exiled government called for Allied reprisals in kind: the total destruction of several German villages from the air. "To my mind," said he, "it should be ten teeth for one and ten eyes for one." As a matter of arithmetic, that seemed reasonable enough, since the Germans do their own reprisal work on the scale of a hundred eyes for one tooth. The question remained whether Allied reprisals would be morally justified—and whether they would...