Jan Masaryk naposled.
Jan Masaryk for the Last Time.

One of the Last Public Appearances of Jan Masaryk As Described in the Diaries of František Masařík

Summary/Abstract: After the appointment of Gottwald’s new government on 25 February 1948, the reappointed foreign secretary Jan Masaryk made several public appearances. While he only attended some of them, he gave public addresses at others. Coincidentally those addresses were made to soldiers. An interesting testimony has been preserved from one of these appearances, as one of its participants, Justice Lieutenant Colonel JUDr. František Masařík, kept a diary for many years, in which he made his own notes on the daily affairs. That’s why he also took careful and detailed notes describing his impressions of Jan Masaryk’s address delivered at Bajkal cinema on 4 March 1948.

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