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Current AffairsPolice close case on 1948 death of Jan Masaryk - murder, not suicide
Fifty-six years after he was found dead in a courtyard beneath his apartment
window, police have finally concluded that Czechoslovakia's post-war
foreign minister Jan Masaryk was murdered. This will come as no surprise
to those who watched the Communist Party take power in 1948, but goes
against the official version that Masaryk committed suicide. Rob Cameron
reports.
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Press ReviewPress Review
The papers have all come out with dramatic headlines today: Terror of
letter bombs in the EU, says Mlada Fronta Dnes, reporting on extensive
security measures now in force in all EU institutions. Lidove Noviny
reports on the outcome of a police investigation according to which the
former Czechoslovak foreign minister Jan Masaryk did not commit suicide in
1948 but was murdered by KGB agents. While Pravo has reserved much of its
front page for what it calls "a calamity" on Czech roads and
airports in the wake of heavy snow.
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One on OneLady Luisa Abrahams - a truly remarkable life
Lady Luisa Abrahams is a truly remarkable woman. Born Luisa Raudnitzerova
in 1910 she grew up in the Prague district of Bubenec, where her father
ran a hospital. A golf champion in pre-war Czechoslovakia, Lady Luisa
stayed in the UK, where she had gone to play a tournament, when war broke
out and has been there to this day. However, she has always maintained
close contacts with her home country and has done great work raising money
for Czech charities over the years. On the eve of her 93rd birthday, I
asked Lady Luisa Abrahams what life was really like in the pre-war
Czechoslovakia, in the era commonly referred to as the First Republic.
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Czechs in HistoryJan Masaryk
Jan Masaryk, a diplomat, an ambassador and later on the Czechoslovak foreign minister, was a son of Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, the first president of independent Czechoslovakia, that came into existence in 1918. Since March 4th,1948, when Jan Masaryk was found dead under the bathroom window of his flat, the cause of his death has been shrouded in mystery. But in memories of the elder generation, which still remembers him, he will always remain the good natured Honza - the Czech nickname for Jan - with a highly developed sense of humour, who had been defending the democratic rights of his nation until the very last days of his life. By . More
