Transcript of: Speaking in 1932 about Charlotte Garrigue MasarykMartha Root
1932
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Wait. At the beginning of this series, we heard the voice of the first Czech Slovak president, Tomas Masaryk. The Masonic family included several remarkable women who were also to play a role in 20th century Czech history. Thomas's wife, Charlotte, with American Born in New York in 18 50 when the couple married in Brooklyn in 18 78 he took on her surname, Gary, is part of his own name. Charlotte went on to devote her life to all things check, and she was every bit as energetic in her defense of women's rights, winning her husband over to the cause. She died in 1923 just five years after the republic was founded than in this archive recording from November 1932. She is remembered by an American friend, the feminist and peace advocate Martha Route and outstanding Charlotte. Gary was her loyalty to the Czechoslovak people. Some girls would have urged the man they loved to remain in the United States, where certainly more quickly he might have come into a great position. But she knew there is something greater than making a living. It is making a life, she felt from the beginning and always through the years that followed that her husband's place was in his own land. Both in here. Martha Route Talking about Charlotte, Mass. Eric Charlotte and Thomas Masaryk, eldest daughter, Alyssa, herself highly educated and emancipated, became a prominent figure in Czechoslovakia between the wars after the First World War, part of which he spent in an Austrian jail. She found it and shared the Czech Slovak branch of the International Red Cross. Among other things, he established an annual tradition of holding a three day political truce in Czechoslovakia when politicians and journalists would suspend their political squabbles. Here she is talking about it. In April 1938 We'll dig you who are listening to work with us for our ideals and butted in our crew a clean and group for press that brings us nearer to each other, Individuals in nation in a wholehearted, deliverance part future. It's so without difference of relations, religion or race, let me say the words which we will pronounce by the speaker of our parliament. In a few minutes, the things of the Red Cross has, Bean proclaimed, let the Feast of the Red Cross being maintained. It's ironic to think that these words were spoken less than a year before Nazi troops into swarming to brag Al, It's a massage. Akka died in exile in America in 1966 and it was not until after the fall of communism that the check Red Cross had her ashes brought home and placed in the Masonic family, too.
