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The authors focus on an internal periodical of Czech Free Masons from 1925 till 1932, i.e. until the year of Hitler’s taking over power in Germany. They find out that the relationship of the Free Masons to T. G. Masaryk was gradually being intensified. While the periodical never mentioned him in the period 1925‒1927, from the following year on, occurrences of his name and expressions of honour towards...
The volumes of the internal periodical of the Czech Free Masons 1933‒1938 make many references to T. G. Masaryk who was becoming an increasingly symbolic figure, shielding democratic Czechoslovakia at the time of enforced totalitarianism in neighbouring countries, especially in Germany. Czech Free Masons took Masaryk’s criticism about their organisation, expressed in his publication in 1905, extremely...