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IT was announced in Prague on December 14 that Prof. T. G. Masaryk, who has been president of the Czechoslovakian Republic since its foundation in 1918, has tendered his resignation. Prof. Masaryk was sixty-eight years of age when he returned to Prague at the end of the Great War and now, at the advanced age of eighty-five years, after guiding the destinies of the nation for seventeen years, he has expressed a wish to retire. Some time back he was taken ill with eye trouble and rheumatism, but he made a remarkable recovery and resumed duties and especially his reading of current scientific literature. During the Great War, Masaryk held a professorship at King's College, London, but his educational work receded as his powers as a statesman came to be recognised and utilised. His own efforts to secure the independence of Czechoslovakia were realised on October 28, 1918. Masaryk's long career has been a continual series of struggles in the interest of truth, both in science and in affairs. He began life as an apprentice to a locksmith but, through the efforts of his schoolmaster, continued his education at Brno Grammar School and the University of Vienna where, in 1878, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree.
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President Masaryk. Nature 136, 980 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136980a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136980a0