Professor Masaryk has been re-elected President of Czechoslovakia. As had
been expected, he.secured at the first ballot the necessary three-fifths majority in a joint session of the House of Deputies and the Senate. The Communists alone produced a candidate Jo run against Professor Masaryk, but he received only a -few votes from German and Hungarian irreconcilables. The- Czech National Democrats refrained from voting. Had it not been. for Professor Masaryk's unrivalled prestige and skilful governing hand the remarkable combination of five different parties which have agreed upon compromise after compromise in order to ease the conduct of affairs could never. have held together. It would have been madness to dispense with President Masaryk's services. Although he is nearly eighty years old he is still physically strong and intellectually alert. He is one of the greatest public servants in Europe, and one of the chief friends of peace: *
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