The 90th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, the late founder and first President of the Czechoslovakian Republic, will be marked throughout the United States tomorrow by Czechs, Slovaks and American friends of the Republic. Tomorrow has been proclaimed as “Czechoslovak Day” by the Governors of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
Masaryk, who was born March 7, 1850, in Hodonin, Moravia, was one of the greatest leaders in the fight for minority rights in Central Europe and played an active role in obtaining guarantees of the Jews’ position. Masaryk attracted world-wide notice at the end of the 19th century by his defense of Leopold Hilsner, a Jew who was accused of ritual murder.
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