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...Every alert U. S. citizen remembers that President Woodrow Thomas Wilson was the Godfather of Czechoslovakia. Without his decisive intervention the new state might have been snuffed out as soon as born. But of course every Czech and Slovak knows that the Father of Czechoslovakia is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still President of the Republic...
...Nagy added from Budapest that the Hungarian Courts have refused to revise their verdict that Count Karolyi is guilty of High Treason in surrendering Hungary to the Allies, in the last days of the War, although General Erich von Ludendorff of Germany and President Masaryk...
...shrewd burghers of Prague. Last week however public sentiment turned bitterly against him overnight, when he printed what was construed as an affront to the political idol of Czechoslovaks, famed Foreign Minister Eduard Benes. As everyone knows, Dr. Benes was the chief lieutenant of President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk in their heroic and successful struggle to create the Czechoslovak State during the World...
Meanwhile Professor Masaryk had escaped from Austria-Hungary. His unique distinction was to be that he would achieve the freedom of his people not as a revolutionary from within but as a propagandist from without. Settling first at Geneva and later in London, he wrote and labored unceasingly, with the aid of Dr. Eduard Benes, now Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia. Of him Masaryk writes: "He had great initiative and was an untiring worker. . . . I naturally took the lead. . . . Politically and historically he was so well trained that . . . he was soon able to act for himself." (Thus even today President Masaryk...
...propaganda Professor Masaryk writes laconically: "We never bribed." He states that contributions received by him from U. S. Czechoslovaks totaled less than $1,000,000 between 1914 and 1918. Yet with these sums and by his own pamphleteering and lecturing he was unquestionably able to create an Allied and later a U. S. mass-sympathy for Czechoslovakia. One successful move was to exploit the arrest of his own daughter Alice by Austro-Hungarian officials, for "people argued that when even women were imprisoned our movement must be serious. Throughout America women petitioned the President to intervene...