TRIBUTE FROM M. BIDAULT
LONDON, Mar. 11. The French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bidault, in a tribute to the.late Czech Foreign Minister, M. Jan.; Masaryk, said: “Jan Masaryk was, faithful to the patriotic traditions ofhis father. He died when freedom., died.” The French National Assembly, dur-/ ing the Foreign affairs debate, ex-, pressed “ fraternal greetings to ; , Czechoslovak Democrats who are forced into silence and deprived of their essential liberties.” M. Bidault. said the events in Eastern Europe had similar characteristics which “do not please us.” All the deputies, except the Communists, approved the Government’s foreign policy. _ . The Czech Foreign Office staff at Czernin Palace attended a meniorial ceremony to-day in honour of M. Masaryk, reports Reuter’s Prague correspondent. The Secretary of State, M. Clementis, said: ‘M. Masaryk..; had bitter moments when he read and heard how his so-called friends abused him Treason among officials abroad also affected him.” No eye was dry as M. Masaryk’s Chef de Cabinet, M: f i Cerny, praised the late Minister. . •
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26719, 13 March 1948, Page 7
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