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Northern Advocate, 11 March 1948, Page 5

A son of the founder and first President of the Czechoslovak Republic. M. Masaryk was born in 1883. He studied in Prague and New York and from 1907 to 1913 held a post with an engineering company in Chicago. During the First World War he was a lieutenant in the Austrian Army. When Czechoslovakia became an independent state he worked for a time in the Ministry or Foreign Affairs at Prague. From 1920 io 1921 he was charge d'affaires at the Czechoslovak Legation in London, and from 1923 lo 1923 assisted the Foreign Minister, Dr Benes, at Prague. In 1925 tie was appointed as his country’s Minister in London, resigning from that post in 1938 in protest against the Munich agreement. He lectured in the United States on the importance of American support against the Axis before returning to Britain in 1939 and undertaking broadcasts to Czechoslovakia. When the Czech Government in London was recognised by the Allies in 1910, lie was appointed Foreign Minister and a year latex- became Vice-Premier. When his country was liberated bo returned as Minister of Foreign Affairs and had held that post since then.