Gründer und erster Staatspräsident der Tschechoslowakei (1850–1937). Eigenh. Brief mit Unterschrift. ohne Ort. 8vo. 1/2 p.
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An den Gründer der Zeit Heinrich Kanner („Sehr geehrter Herr Doktor Kanner“): „Ein Unwolsein [!] hat den Artikel um einen Tag verspätet; aber ich hoffe wir kommen mit der Zeit aus: hier ist die erste Hälfte, die Sie, wie ich rechne, Dienstag Früh bekommen; die zweite Hälfte erhalten Sie Mittwoch früh. Bitte bitten Sie die Correctur so, dass ich Sie Donnerstag, möglichst früh, erhalte, so haben Sie die Correctur Freitag früh. […]“
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3 eigenh. Briefe mit U. („T. G. Masaryk“).
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In English, to the British journalist Annie Christitch. I: “I’m not surprised, that our people behaved, as they did. I told you often, that our catholic party & their press is rotten. The Austro Hung. catholicism has been enslaved by the Viennese Court; Vienna ruled the Church & used it as a police. That’s all. They are used to that slavery & only the now generation may outgrow this deplorable education [...]” (letter dated 24 May 1930). – III: Letter dated 5 Oct. 1930, about the closing of a Czech paper (posibly “Cech”?): “this bad, really very bad paper died; it will be a relief to the archbishop for he paid it (he told me himself!), & it may have some good effect on the remaining catholic papers [...]”. – III: “[...] Almost all reports of the affairs in Subcarp. Russia are conceived from a political party-standpoint; yet things are very complicated. Concerning the Orthodoxy, even the Statesman’s Year-book for 1930 gives the figure of 73,000; we will soon know, what the recent census has to tell. In any case there is no favorization of this church; I concede, that there is an unclear mixing of russophilism with the concomitant orthodoxy, perhaps even among officials. I myself often point out, to take care of the priests coming from Russia; they are not educated & may be poor outlaws only too prone to find a living. This part of our republic needs education & hygienic care, hospitals etc, & that is pretty well done. Didn’t I tell you, that we (soon after the war) sent there a good deal of chocolate – they sold it to the local Jews, believing, that it comes from the devil, because it is so black. And such stories I could tell you more than one, indicating the primitivness of the population [...] I hope the autonomous diet will be created the next year – we must take care not have the Ruthenians by means of their autonomy dominated by the other parties [...]” (letter dated 26 Dec. 1930). – Mostly on stationery with embossed letterhead of the President of the Republic of Czechoslovakia; one envelope with well-preserved seal.