Masaryk, TomásGarrigue

Mas·a·ryk (măsʹə-rĭk, mäʹsä-), Tomáš Garrigue. 1850-1937.

Czechoslovakian politician who served as the first president of independent Czechoslovakia (1918-1935). His son Jan Garrigue Masaryk (1886-1948) was the foreign minister of the provisional government in London (1940-1945) and the restored government in Prague (1945-1948).

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