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Also Known As Jan Garrigue Masaryk
Born September 14, 1886 • Prague • Czechoslovakia
Died March 10, 1948 (aged 61) • Prague • Czech Republic
Title / Office foreign minister (1940-1948), Czechoslovakia
Role In World War II

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Walter Bedell Smith, 1946.
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