T. G. MASARYK 1850-1930
T. G. MASARYK 1850-1930

Author(s): Lev Sychrava
Subject(s): International relations/trade, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Seton Watson; Czech independance; Habsbourg; Bolshevism; Yoougoslavia; Wilson;
Summary/Abstract: The German writer Emil Ludwig, biographer of Napoleon and Lincoln, talking in Geneva in 1927 with the English playwright Bernard Shaw about the possibility of realizing the United States of Europe, launched, during the conversation, the question of who could be the president. Shaw is told to have answered without hesitation: "I only know one, it's Masaryk". Another English writer, H.-G. Wells, called Masaryk the greatest man in Europe, placed at the most central point of the European United States.

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