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Masaryk’s association with the School seems to have begun on 25 June 1915, when my father, R. W. Seton-Watson, wrote to him in Switzerland, inviting him to become a lecturer. Masaryk was reluctant; on 8 July he replied, ‘I am not quite sure that I would be the lecturer you wish and expect’ .1 On 8 September Seton-Watson wrote to Ronald Burrows, Principal of King’s College: ‘It is very difficult to get him [Masaryk] to move, and it is quite clear that the lectures must be made to fit him, not he to fit the lectures’ .2 Masaryk arrived in London on 24 September. Seton-Watson wrote again to Burrows on the 26th after seeing him: It was half playfully decided between us that the task of finally overcoming his scruples is to devolve on you.3.
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R. W. Seton-Watson, Masaryk in England (Cambridge, 1943), p. 69.
R. W. Seton-Watson and the Yugoslavs, H. Seton-Watson, C. SetonWatson, L. Boban, M. Gross, B. Krizman, D. Šepić (editorial board), (London and Zagreb), 1976, I, p. 234.
Burrows Papers, King’s College, London, File 86; photocopy in Seton- Watson Papers, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, London.
Burrows Papers, File 249; also The Times, 4 Oct. 1918.
Burrows Papers, File 249.
The Times, 30 Nov. 1918. The report is unsigned, but must have been Wickham Steed’s, whose colourful account of the occasion is in his Through Thirty Years (London, 1924), II, pp. 260–1.
The Times, 25 Oct. 1923.
Masaryk in England, pp. 17–18.
The figure of 20 000 legionaries seems excessively high, and more likely to apply to the total number of troops in the march past.
It has been suggested to me by Dr Anna Masaryková that this is a mistranslation of ‘Lásko boží Iásko’ the singing of which would have been appropriate to the occasion.
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Seton-Watson, C. (1990). Masaryk and R. W. Seton-Watson. In: Hanak, H. (eds) T. G. MASARYK (1850–1937). Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20576-9_2
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