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Masaryk
remembered
Czech hero Thomas Masaryk will be remembered in Washington with a statue soon to be erected on Embassy Row.
The location will be a small park in front of the Cosmos Club on Massachusetts Avenue, Czech Ambassador Martin Palous said.
This will add "a new and quite substantive dimension to the Czech presence in Washington," Mr. Palous wrote in the latest edition of the Czech Embassy newsletter.
"For those who are aware of the weight and depth of history, who connect their own lives to all of human existence as a whole, with all of its triumphs and tragedies, spirit and culture, this is truly welcome news," he said.
He thanked the American Friends of the Czech Republic for its "tireless efforts" to find a location for the statue.
In 1918, Masaryk, along with Eduard Bene, founded Czechoslovakia. Masaryk, who married American Charlotte Garrigue, strove for equality between Czechs and Slovaks. The country peacefully separated into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic in 1993.
"Masaryk's permanent presence in Washington will remind us of the everlasting importance of personal integrity in politics and of basic political virtues such as courage and readiness not only to talk in times of crisis but to act," Mr. Palous said.
"Masaryk will be here not only as a representative of Czechs living in the old country, he will stand as a representative for many generations of Czech Americans."
Czech hero Thomas Masaryk will be remembered in Washington with a statue soon to be erected on Embassy Row.
The location will be a small park in front of the Cosmos Club on Massachusetts Avenue, Czech Ambassador Martin Palous said.
This will add "a new and quite substantive dimension to the Czech presence in Washington," Mr. Palous wrote in the latest edition of the Czech Embassy newsletter.
"For those who are aware of the weight and depth of history, who connect their own lives to all of human existence as a whole, with all of its triumphs and tragedies, spirit and culture, this is truly welcome news," he said.
He thanked the American Friends of the Czech Republic for its "tireless efforts" to find a location for the statue.
In 1918, Masaryk, along with Eduard Bene, founded Czechoslovakia. Masaryk, who married American Charlotte Garrigue, strove for equality between Czechs and Slovaks. The country peacefully separated into the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic in 1993.
"Masaryk's permanent presence in Washington will remind us of the everlasting importance of personal integrity in politics and of basic political virtues such as courage and readiness not only to talk in times of crisis but to act," Mr. Palous said.
"Masaryk will be here not only as a representative of Czechs living in the old country, he will stand as a representative for many generations of Czech Americans."
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