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1. MASARY_120505_05.JPG: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk 1850 - 1937 Professor, creator of a democracy and champion of liberty President of Czechoslovakia 1918-1935
2. MASARY_120505_07.JPG: "We accept the American principles as laid down by President Wilson: the principles of liberated mankind, of the actual equality of nations, and of government deriving all their just power from the consent of the governed." Declaration of Czechoslovakia T.G. Masaryk Independence Square Philadelphia October 26, 1918
3. MASARY_120505_11.JPG: Presented as a gift to The United States of America from The Czech Republic and American Friends of the Czech Republic September 19, 2002
4. MASARY_120505_14.JPG: "Seven decades ago, an unprecedented partnership began between two Presidents: the philosopher Tomáš Masaryk, and the idealistic scholar, Woodrow Wilson. It was a partnership as well among Czechs and Slovaks to join together in federation. And, yes, it was a long, hard road from their work on your Declaration of Independence to this magnificent celebration today. I am proud to walk these last steps with you as one shared journey ends and another begins." Commemoration of the end of communist rule President George H. W. Bush Wenceslas Square Prague November 17, 1990
5. MASARY_120505_19.JPG: Sculptor is Vincenc Makovsky
6. MASARY_120505_25.JPG: Tomáš G. Masaryk He had the mind of a scholar, the figure of a sportsman, the bearing of an aristocrat, the position of a king.But he had the heart of a democrat ... Dorothy Thompson, NBC broadcast, September 24, 1937 This memorial honors Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), the founder and first president of the Republic of Czechoslovakia. Although born to a family of humble origins, he achieved considerable renown as a scholar and university professor and entered politics. During World War I, he founded the Czecholovak National Council in Paris to advocate for independence from Austria-Hungary. In support of the Allied cause, he organized the Czechoslovak Legion, an army of volunteers that fought Russia, Italy, and France. In 1918 Masaryk won the support of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson for independence. With the fall of Austria-Hungary, he became President of Czechoslovakia. He thrice was reelected, holding the office until 1935. Supported by his American-born wife, Charlotte Garrigue, and inspired by U.S. Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Wilson, Masaryk founded Czechoslovakia upon the ideals of free elections, the rule of law, the separation of powers, universal suffrage, and the fundamental liberties of speech, assembly and religion.
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Wikipedia Description: Statue of Tomas Masaryk (Washington DC)
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The Statue of Tomas Masaryk in Washington DC is a memorial to Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, the founding President of Czechoslovakia. It was offered to the United States by the Czech Republic and was inaugurated on Embassy Row on 19 September 2002 in the presence of Czech President Václav Havel, former Slovak President Michal Ková?, and Prague-born former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
The plaster for the statue was sculpted from life by Vincenc Makovský, shortly before Masaryk's death in 1937. Long housed in the National Gallery in Prague, it was only cast into bronze in 1968 during the Prague Spring but was not erected at the time.
The small public park in which the statue stands, a triangle surrounded by Q Street NW, 22nd Street NW, and Massachusetts Avenue, was designed by landscape architect Roger G. Courtenay.
The memorial includes quotes from the Czechoslovak declaration of independence, drafted under Masaryk's direction in Washington and proclaimed by him on October 18, 1918 on the steps of Independence Hall in Philadelphia; and from a speech delivered by George H. W. Bush at Wenceslas Square in Prague in November 1990. Coincidentally, the monument is geographically close to the statue of General Philip Sheridan, also on Embassy Row, sculpted by Gutzon Borglum who assisted Masaryk in drafting the Declaration of Czechoslovakia in 1918.
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