CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Third Term

Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt all fused into one super-President could hardly rouse greater affection in U. S. hearts than kindles in the bosoms of Czechoslovakians at the thought of 77-year-old Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk.

He is the first and only President of Czechoslovakia, a nation which he and famed Foreign Minister Dr. Edouard Benes (pronounced Benesh) were predominantly instrumental in creating after the War, with the support of Woodrow Wilson.

Therefore last week Professor Masaryk was, for the third time, elected President of Czechoslovakia. He is unquestionably "the nation's choice," but he...

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