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Excerpt from President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, Thomas G. Masaryk In December 1914, there fled across the boundaries of Austria-Hungary a university professor, about whom it was rumoured that he corrupted the young; the political leader of the not numerous Progressive Party, whom no district in Bohemia would have elected to Parliament; a philosopher whose teachings were an evangel to some, but an abomination to most; a scholar recognised abroad who, nevertheless, at home was a member neither of the Academy nor of the Learned Society - a man of disputed significance it was who fled. In December 1918, this man returns home from exile in triumph as the first president of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, the sound of whose name thrills the hearts of the whole nation, from the borders of Bavaria to those of Roumania - whose name calls forth exultation and tears; in favour of whose election as head of the state the whole National Assembly arose with cheers as one man, all parties without exception; and for whose coming the whole Czecho-Slovak Republic is decorating itself with flying banners in every village and solitude. The significance of Masaryk's personality today is undisputed and omnipresent. T. G. Masaryk made his appearance in Bohemia at an unpropitious time. He was a new man. Dissimilar to all who at that time were active in public affairs. Wherever he stepped in, he found opposition. Many years did not pass before he became a factor that could not be disregarded in public affairs. It was necessary to go with him or against him, it was not possible to avoid him or go around him and remain indifferent. Every thinking Czech had to balance accounts with Masaryk, because Masaryk was a live problem, a new program. Masaryk was born on March 7, 1850, in the Moravian border-town Hodonin. His father was a coachman on an imperial estate. Thomas's childhood was restless and varied, because his parents lived in a different village almost every other year. His father was a native of Kopcany in Slovakia, then Hungarian, and his mother came from a somewhat Germanized family of Hustopec, a town on the Moravian plains. At home Thomas learned Czech and a little German, and went to a Czech school in Cejkovice. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: President of the Czecho-Slovak Republic, Thomas G. Masaryk (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Jan Herben
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 20
• EAN: 9781331440659
• ISBN: 9781331440659
• ID: 09752141
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 41 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 1 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. July 2015

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