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Current AffairsMasaryk murder mystery back in headlines as Russian journalist speaks out
The mysterious death of Czechoslovakia's post-war foreign minister Jan
Masaryk is back in the headlines. That's thanks to controversial claims by
a Russian journalist, who says he knows for sure Masaryk was murdered, and
also claims to know the identity of the killer.
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Current AffairsAntonin Sum, secretary to post-war foreign minister Jan Masaryk, dies in Prague at 87
Antonin Sum, who was secretary to the post-war Czechoslovak foreign
minister Jan Masaryk, has died in Prague at the age of 87. Sum, who was
born in Prague and studied law at Charles University, was active in the
anti-Nazi resistance during the war. After working at the office of the
government for two years, in 1947 he became the secretary of Jan Masaryk,
a man with whom his fate was ever afterwards entwined.
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One on OneJiri Stransky - duty-bound to tell young generation about Communism
Rob Cameron's guest on this week's One on One is the writer, film-maker and
chairman of the Czech PEN club Jiri Stransky. Jiri Stransky's family was
persecuted by both the Nazis and the Communists - Jiri himself was
imprisoned by the Communists on two occasions for speaking out against the
totalitarian regime. He's now involved in a project to teach schoolchildren
about the injustices of Communism.
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Czechs in HistoryThe life and death of Jan Masaryk
Jan Masaryk was the son of Czechoslovakia's first president T.G. Masaryk.
Like his father, he would come be defined by his service for his country,
working as both a diplomat and later as foreign minister during some of
Czechoslovakia's darkest days. Following the Second World War he witnessed
the 1948 Communist coup that ended hopes of a return to democracy in
Czechoslovakia and paved the way for forty years of oppressive rule. More
Press ReviewPress Review
The bad weather makes the front pages, although what's bad for some is not
necessarily bad for others. MLADA FRONTA DNES shows a man cross-country
skiing along the tram tracks in Prague's Bila Hora district, while LIDOVE
NOVINY has a photo of someone snowboarding on Petrin Hill, with a
snow-topped Prague Castle behind him.
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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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