DEATH AS PROTEST
MASARYICS SUICIDE BRITISH M.P.’S VIEW WHY benes is silent (10 a.m.) LONDON, March 14. The British Labour M.P., Mr. E. G. Fletcher, who returned to London from Prague on March 10, in a letter to The Times, says that several days before the event M. Masaryk intimated his decision to commit suicide. “M. Masaryk felt this was the only step available to him as a demonstiation that the new regime was a denial of all ideals of Czech freedom and independence for which he always stood, he says. Mr. Fletcher suggests that the reason why Dr. Benes is standing so markedly aloof from the new regime, is that he is not free to speak his mind, that if he were he would be unwilling to speak as President against the regime and, if he did so, it might well provoke civil war.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22586, 15 March 1948, Page 5
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