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Jan Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. American journalist John Gunther described Masaryk as "a brave, honest, turbulent, and impulsive man".
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Born 14 September 1886 · Died 10 March 1948 · Q315531
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s family—including his former wife, Frances Crane Leatherbee, a former in-law named Sylvia E. Crane, and his sister Alice Masaryková — stated their belief that he had indeed killed himself, according to a letter written by Sylvia E. Crane to The New York Times, and considered the possibility of murder a
“s family—including his former wife, Frances Crane Leatherbee, a former in-law named Sylvia E. Crane, and his sister Alice Masaryková — stated their belief that he had indeed killed himself, according to a letter written by Sylvia E. Crane to The New York Times, and considered the possibility of murder a”
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“s other neighbors needed a situation after the war that”
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“Is there any decency left in the world? A great scandal will erupt one day when the role which Steffi von Hohenlohe, née Richter, played during the visit of Wiedemann is revealed. This world-famous secret agent, spy, and swindler, who is a full Jewess, constitutes today the centre of Hitler”
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Jan Masaryk Sails for U.S.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Jan Masaryk Stresses Czech-jewish Unity in Fight on Hitlerism
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Jan Masaryk, Sol Bloom Address Yeshiva College Dinner Today
With murder, accident or suicide all considered possible
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Included a new expert opinion regarding the mechanics of the fall, and an old tape by the policeman who was among the first at the crime scene, testifying that the body had already been moved by the time he arrived
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When a Russian journalist claimed that his mother knew the Russian intelligence officer who threw Masaryk out of the window of the west bathroom of Masaryk's flat
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Concluded after forensic research that Masaryk had indeed been thrown out of the window to his death
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Also the ashes of his sister Alice Masaryková were laid to rest
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Awarded Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, 1st class (1991).
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During the Prague Spring, Masaryk's death was ruled an accident, not excluding a murder and a third investigation in the early 1990s after the Velvet Revolution concluded that it had been a murder
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Awarded honorary citizen of Brno (1948).
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Awarded honorary doctorate of the Masaryk University (1948).
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Died 1948-03-10.
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Awarded honorary citizen of Bratislava (1947).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Příbor (1947).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Kopřivnice (1947).
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Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta (1947).
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And also a friend of Masaryk's fiancée Marcia Davenport, wrote, "The Communists used him and, when his usefulness was past, flung him out of a window to his death
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Awarded honorary citizen of Prague (1946).
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The exile Masaryk became close to the American writer Marcia Davenport, whom he felt had a strong affinity to Czechs and to the city of Prague, depicted in several of her books
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Career landmark: Minister of National Defence of Czechoslovakia (1944–1945).
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Divorced her husband Russell Davenport and is known to have followed Masaryk to post-war Prague and lived with him there from 1945 to 1948
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“he [Beneš] now only has Russia on his mind. We must hold him, so that he won’t fly off to the sky”
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By the reprisals undertaken by the Nazi regime following the assassination in Prague of Reinhard Heydrich, the acting Reichsprotektor of Bohemia-Moravia, by Czechoslovak agents of the Special Operations Executive
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“My conviction is that our little country is not going to be saved by any of these grand”
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs (Czechoslovakia) (1940–1948).
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Upon a policy of strategic bombing as a way to induce the overthrow of Hitler because it was the only way that he could envision winning the war at the time, but now the United Kingdom had the Soviet Union and the United
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“I do not envy those who are perpetuating this horrible drama, either by vandal force or by turning their faces to the wall. They have committed sins against God.”
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And warned there would be a "reckoning" with them after "liberation"
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And he shared Beneš's viewpoint that there was no place for the Sudeten Germans in a restored Czechoslovakia
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“prophylactic measures towards establishing permanent peace in Europe”
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The Sudeten German leader Konrad Henlein had visited London four times between 1935-1938 to give speeches criticising Czechoslovakia
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Masaryk was married to Frances Crane Leatherbee (1887–1954)
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When Steed's journal The Review of Reviews went bankrupt, Masaryk granted him enough money to keep his journal afloat
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Before then encountering the rising threat of Nazism to his nation
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Was made minister-plenipotentiary to Britain
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Became secretary to the Czechoslovak foreign minister Edvard Beneš
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And then as counselor to the legation in London
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Not to seek "retribution" against them, saying after the "second liberation", there would be "retribution" against the Sudeten Germans
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Won Medal for Bravery (1917).
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And served in the Austro-Hungarian Army during the First World War
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Born 1886-09-14.
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As the son of the future leader of Czechoslovakia Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Masaryk fought for Austro-Hungary in World War I
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Is there any decency left in the world? A great scandal will erupt one day when the role which Steffi von Hohenlohe, née Richter, played during the visit of Wiedemann is revealed. This world-famous secret agent, spy, and swindler, who is a full Jewess, constitutes today the centre of Hitler
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