Telegraf. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1909-1951, 1947-03-21

49, VI C44N ONCkOOS OXAO
President Liberator. How much
could be said about each OF
these points merely enumerat-
ed here.
I'm his scientific works and
in politics Masaryk was a fight
er for truth and in this he knew
no compromise. We may just
mention here some of the out
standing milestones in his pre-
war struggles for the truth :
The so-called Manuscripts, the
|Hilsner affair, the Wahrmund
affair. During the war he
fought indefatigably for the
right of his Czechoslovak peo-
pie to an Independent life.
From that struggle he emerged
victorious. He became the first
president of the young state,
almost president for life, the
Father of the Country, and was
considered as a statesman of
WO11O ICIIOWIl.
"It seems to me appropriate
to mention here a statement of
Masaryk's concerning the aim
of his life, as reported by Karel
Capek in his "Talks with T. C.
Masaryk".
eff l should state what was
the eliminating point of my
life, | would have to say that
that certainly it was not the
fact that I became President
and that | am permitted to
carry this equally great honour
and heavy responsibility. My
personal satisfaction, if I may
call it such, lies deeper; that
as head of the state | did not
change anything from what I
believed and from what I liked
as a poor student, as a teacher
of youth, as an uncomfortable
critic, as a reformer in politics;
that being in possession of pow
er, I did not try to seek for my
self different moral laws, or a
different rule of relationship
with my fellow men, with my
people and with the world from
that by which | was directed
before. T~may be permitted to
say that all that | used to be-
lieve in is gradually being con-
firmed and fulfilled so that ii
is not necessary for me to
change anything in my faith
towards humanity and demo
cracy, in my search after the
truth and in the highest moral
and religious command of love
for my fellow men. From my
experience which in my posi-
ton I am still able to deepen.
i maintain that there is no O.
Their moral standard and no O.
Their order of ethics for states:
nations and their administra-
tors than those existing for in
dividuals. The eliminating
point of my life does not con-
sists in the fact that during my
whole life, strange and compli-
Gated as it has been, I was able
to remain, myself, but that after
so many trials and common l.
deals which I possessed still re-
main the same.
IT am telling myself that in
the perpetual struggle for the
better future of the nation and
humanity I stood on the right
side. This knowledge is suf-
ficient to make the life Of q
man beautiful and, as it is
called, happy"
Beautiful, happy life. Pre-.
sident Masaryk did not live tC
see the new, barbarian and o.
dious attack on humanity ano
democracy, he did not live tC
see the last war in which his
nation and state were subJu'
gated and many of his faithful.
collaborators became martyrs
and exiles. But towards the
end of his life, Masaryk saw
the coming of Hitler and reaC
his "Mein Kampf" very atten:
lively. He studied it, talkec
|about it and in his typical hand
writing made wise margina
notes in this dangerous book
Several times, even during his
illness, visitors found this bool
on his desk.
"But even if T. c.. Masaryl
had lived to see this new strug
gle concerning his ideals, tht
eternal ideals of mankind,
am certain that he would no
have lost his faith in a new ant
permanent victory of human
Ity, democracy, truth and love
"When Czechoslovakia wa
struck down by the cruel blow