'WE STAND ON THE THRESHOLD OF A NEW AGE':ALICE MASARYKOVA, THE CZECHOSLOVAK RED CROSS,AND THE BUILDING OF A NEW EUROPE

摘要

Of the new states established at the end of the First World War, the Czechoslovak Republic was one of the most heralded and most reviled. To its supporters in western Europe and North America, Czechoslovakia's promise as a liberal democracy had been shown in the wise and stately manner of Toma§ Garrigue Masaryk, the professor and former member of the Imperial Austrian parliament who had lobbied the Allied governments for the empire's breakup and took office in 1918 as the republic's first president.