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From the high-altitude perspective of postwar geopolitics, President Edvard ����Ա�š dubbed it Czechoslovakia’s “final solution of the German question.”

By 1944, he was writing to Edvard ����Ա�š, the exiled president of Czechoslovakia, “I do not think I shall give up the home I have built here by the Pacific, the home which I have come to love and which is so favorable for my work.”

They were Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, a philosophy professor, and his colleague and ultimate successor, Eduard ����Ա�š, who had been one of his students at Prague.

John and Charles had undertaken this trip to France together no doubt drawn by their relationship to the French royal family, and Charles had fought valiantly by his father's side until forced to withdraw by his nobles, who, according to ����Ա�š de Weitmil, were "fearful of losing both their Kings."

Great men devoted their labours to this glorious fane: Peter Parler and his son John, ����Ա�š of Loun and others were among the master-builders, while many artists, goldsmiths and other craftsmen famous in their day contributed to the decoration of "the Father's House."