MR MASARYK COMMITS SUICIDE

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25440, 11 March 1948, Page 7

MR MASARYK COMMITS SUICIDE

Czech Foreign Minister

JUMP FROM WINDOW OF HOME IN PRAGUE

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(Rec. 1.30 a.m.) - LONDON, March 10 The Prague correspondent of the t>.. is officially confirmed that Mr Jan MasarvV d Foreign Minister, and son of Thomas Maslrvk fonHit CzeC *} first President of Czechoslovakia, mo7n-

Earlier, the Prague correspondent of the British United hfj SS i - r *? P ? r t ed that Mr Masaryk had killed himself by jumoiri" from a Window at his honte’. He lived m a small apartment on nffiX eC flo °- of t J* e Eoreign Office at Czetnin Palace. The correspondent added that Or. Anton Chnela, head Of the j re .’s h Ministry’s press section, admitted that Mr Masaryk had committed suicide. Dr. Chnela then hurriedly broke off the conversation. - B ?J h J. h , e Associated Press and the British United Press correspondents say that other officials for several hours refused to confirm or deny that Mr Masaryk had killed himself, but neighbours saw his body carried trom the palace courtyard.

depressed since “he GovelnmJnt‘crisis' rfj looked harassed and haggard at his last ISIS - He Masaryk’s suicHe stripped The new regime to suggest that legality and constitutional had governed the recent changes. Critics of events in Prl<i concluded that the Czechoslovakia of Thomas Masafyk Zas long surprised that his son did not outlive it "or

“The circumstances of his death reinforce the nresiimntmn that he retained the portfolio of Foreign Affairsland mad™ van" ous ptibhc pronouncements in the last fortnight under duress ”