The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 3/Miscellaneous (3)

In honor of President Masaryk’s arrival in Prague the Bohemian National Theatre staged Smetana’s great opera “Libuše”; the title role was sung by Emmy Destinn. Masaryk sat in what used to be the royal box.

 

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French Foreign Minister Stephen Pichon said in the French Chamber on December 29: “We were the first to work for the resurrection of Bohemia which is the most remarkable and miraculous event of the war. We were the first to recognize the Czechoslovak government, the government of Masaryk, Kramář, Štefánik and Beneš. We called its members to our conferences. We formed the Czechoslovak army and with the music of the Marseillaise the government of the Czechoslovak republic entered Prague accompanied by the representative of France, the only foreign diplomat.”