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...often dining at Buckingham Palace. Dr. Benes, champion of the League of Nations, has long been first in peace, now seems likely to be first in war as a Skoda supersalesman, remains first in the hearts of Czechoslovaks along with his venerable friend and patron, permanent President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk...
...Germany beer halls echoed with jubilant shouts of ''Heil Henlein!'', while in Czechoslovakia Führer Henlein was still paying lip service to bearded old President Thomas Masaryk...
...active than almost any of his predecessors. He was the first French Cabinet Minister ever to visit Poland. To do him honor Dictator Pilsudski last April canceled a pleasure trip to Egypt. Amid tremendous acclaim he was feted by Czechoslovakia at Prague, exchanged literary reminiscences with President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. But for Louis Barthou the most fun was his Balkan tour...
During the 16 years of his three presidencies, Father Masaryk has seen Czechoslovakia grow rich under French backing, attempt to solidify her position with Dr. Benes' Little Entente, slump slightly with Depression and finally face the menace of Naziism on her borders. The two most serious problems that the old gentleman faces at the beginning of his fourth term are: 1) a Nazi Austria to the south and a Nazi Germany to the north; 2) a possible Habsburg restoration with a revival of Hungary's demands for part of her lost provinces of Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia...
...even such grave threats to his country's serenity President Masaryk does not allow to disturb the calm tenor of his daily life. Maintaining the burning interest in all varieties of subjects which has caused him to write books on everything from Hypnotism and Suicide to Marxism and the problem of small European nations, he still reads voluminously in four languages. He loves a brisk canter on horseback, or a romp with his small grandsons, children of Charles Revilliod, who only a few years ago used to play naked as jays in the gardens of the presidential summer palace...