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...gothic, spidery Ladislaus Hall last week the 420 Deputies and Senators of Czechoslovakia's parliament met to elect a President by secret ballot. The secrecy was unnecessary because all the world knew what the result would be. For the fourth successive time gentle white-chinned Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and only President of Czechoslovakia, was overwhelmingly elected. Today President Masaryk is 84; if he lives out his fourth term he will...
...Dear Father Masaryk," as Prague papers like to call him, was the son of a one-time serf, an illiterate Slovak coachman on an imperial Habsburg estate. At 13 young Masaryk was ready but too young to enter a teacher's training school. He worked for a blacksmith for a while, then went on with his schooling, supporting himself by tutoring. At 26 he earned a Ph.D. in Vienna...
...Thomas Masaryk created Czechoslovakia. As a professor in Prague he vehemently preached Czech and Slovak nationalism, got himself into bad odor with the Habsburg regime and finally, just before the War, teamed up with an able little man named Eduard Benes who was to become one of the shrewdest politicians in Europe and immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient...
From Czechoslovakia, another ally of France, came strong rumors that perpetual President Masaryk and perpetual Foreign Minister Benes were about ready to devalue their crown...
...France and her Little Entente Allies decide that they must wage a "preventive war'' on Germany (TIME, Oct. 30) public opinion among their own peoples will have to be worked up. Last week grizzled old Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, "Father of Czechoslovakia" and its perpetual President, did something he had never done before on a birthday of his country, which last week was 15. Standing stiffly in Prague's Wenzel Square the President reviewed a Czechoslovak birthday parade in which for the first time marched not only citizens and peasants but troops...