Show F r Jan Masaryk Took His Life In Protest Against Robots t y I tt By s News Analyst and arid Corn Commentator it u a V tiVA WASHINGTON For ASHINGTON-For S For T-For For some time after I heard and the tragic d ner news s of Jan Masaryk's i suicide a strange memory haunted me I saw saw saw-A A man and woman alone in a darkened roo room They 1 are two of the last three human beings on earth The rest have been destroyed by an army of automatons man created man created robots Creatures who have all other human attributes but no sensitivities sensitivities ties no souls Mechanically-made Mechanically the robots are the triumph of the productivity of the machine But th they y have revo revolted ted and turned against their creators They now S are marching on the last human w s stronghold T The h e w lights go out you youcan can hear the rhythmic rhythmic hyth ir mic tramp tramp tramp of ot their iron feet There is a crash of glass as t they hey pus push h insensitive in f fm i sensitive to pain m through the windows windows windows win win- two revolver revolt dows r er shots ring out the dark the t a In as t i human beings com com- comi commit commit mit tuft suicide to save themselves from the horrible wrath of ot the automatons That you may remember was the climax of the play d. d Universal Robots written Robots written by Karel i Kapek I 1 was teas reminded of it because of Jf f one of ot the first deeds of Jan Masaryk Mat Mati Ma- Ma i t in hi 1046 when he returned to ti bis obis native country after the exile I r imposed on him when Hitler's robots crushed the first Czech republic When Masaryk returned he laid flowers Jowers on the grave of Karel Kapek r the great Czech author who wrote that prophetic play giving us the thet t- t word ord robot and the warning behind behind be be- hind bind it The words comes down from the old Slavic robots servitude We have accepted the word rford We We have not heeded the warning warn warn- ing The robots like the Golem of the Hebrew myth and the Adam of df f the Psalms yet being imperfect before before be be- fore Core a soul was breathed into his substance offer a grim warning to toas as now beings released today loday may re enact Kapok's Kapek's play playon on an n a stage wide as civilization Day after day come the frightened fright fright- med ened echoes from Europe of ot the fear Cear of war And yet no people wants ants it If 13 you were to write i down all the material demands of the dip diplomats and the rulers of each nation and put them in the hands of the peoples of the world and tell them If you want these you must Gave war who would pay the price tf of war None None but a robot f without sensitivity without souL The martyrdom of Jan Masaryk teems to have hurt rather than helped the Communist cause I 1 spent r some tome time with the former Czechoslovak Czecho Czecho- ho- ho slovak ambassador to the United States Juric June on the evening evenIng evening eve eve- ning of the day when Masaryk's suicide suicide sui sui- cide aide was was' announced t believes belie that Masaryk l felt he could servo serve his country j Letter batter dead than as a a. living prist prisoner pris pris- J t oner fo for the says he was a a. prisoner Masaryk l alive k but with every word and gesture filtered through the censorship of the Communist screen would become become become be be- come a a. symbol of ot the spirit of Czechoslovakia surrendered enchained enchained en en- chained a noble and historic name and all aU it has stood for or besmirched besmirched besmirched be be- smirched and obliterated Dead t the name the spirit live The ambassador recalled an episode episode episode epi epi- sode in that epic ellic odyssey which has gone down in military history as ase asI J s sr I r r JAN MASARYK The name the spirit live a I one of or the marvelous achievements of Df World War I the r-the the march of the thet t Czechoslovak Legion which fought i beside the Allies against the Rus- Rus j glans and after the Bolshevists had made their peace with the Germans v fought its way from the Ukraine to f Vladivostok a trek that makes the b worlds world's great marches pale by com corn parison Many believe that Masaryk nad had remained on with the new government government govern govern- ment as foreign minister not because because because be be- cause be he accepted as inevitable Communist domination but because because because be be- cause he felt he could serve best I within the government working secretly se cc- with democratic t I elements clement He made a cryptic declaration in ina a a speech to the Czech army after c e the Communist assumption of power pow er in which he said Czech and I Slovak broU brothers rs 1 I 1 am with y you u. u f f 7 i i J This may have been an Indication of his true purpose to direct the un un- un But something changed chanced his mind about the course he w was s to pur pur- sue One must take into consideration the attitude altitude toward self destruction in a country which had a long tradition tradition tradition tion of ot martyrdom and underground resistance and no Catholic background back back- i ground I do not know how much cifa of ofa a mystic mystie Jan Jm Masaryk may have been But it has been emphasized that only a few hours before his death he visited his fathers father's grave with others to venerate the honored memory And he remained there ther alone long after alter the others bad had gone Perhaps he felt elt that he had received received received re re- re- re In that lonely vigil some mystic command say as Hamlet did after a a. similar experience u. u and thy commandment all alone shall live within the book and volume of or my brain with baser matter yes es by heaven s s s Peace Depends On W Worlds World's Children Recently I received a pamphlet from the General Brotherhood board containing an article by Gordon Allport Allport All All- port department of social relations at Harvard entitled Guide Lines Lints for Research in International Coop Coop- era lion Allport points out that most International International international In in- conferences meet in the t J A N l i ir 1 9 F X Credit United Nations World These United Nations members dont don't quarrel Can you guess the country to which these children of members of tho United Nations Nations Na Na- staff belong glare of cameras microphones and bald heads and that tha t it is time to concentrate our efforts on the chil chil- dren In teaching children about the peoples of the world Allport says the tendency is to accentuate the DIFFERENCES He says The American child learns with horror about headhunters headhunters headhunters head- head hunters about infanticide and hey hex learns to laugh at the Dutch who clop in wooden shoes and at the quaint observances of Easter among adherents to the Orthodox faith The implication of inferiority is a usual product by-product of our present method of teaching cultural and national dif dif- dif dif- Less dramatic but far tar sounder would be the teaching of the common considerations of justice and morality that are identical over vast areas of ot the earth Practices that may SEEM to differ diller dramatically dramatically drama drama- often otten indicate common aspirations aspirations as as- and common values The prayer wheels of Tibet and the silent si silent silent si- si lent Quaker meeting have virtually Identical functional significance so too the initiation rites of the Pawnee and the American high school com corn Little effort has been made Allport All All- port claims to search for or the common common common com com- mon ground of ot mankind mankind and and he suggests that the United Nations prepare an encyclopedia of the uniformities uniformities uni uni- fortuities and similarities in the oe- oe practices and aspirations of all peoples peoples peoples-an an encyclopedia which would serve as a reference guide for innumerable aspects of world policy for Cor years to come Allport thinks that a study of or tin I Icom com common mOD peoples of or the tho world undoubtedly undoubtedly un un- un would reveal that more Important to them than boundaries and national aspirations arc are matters matters mat mat- tors of self-respect self pride food shelter marria marriage e and the wel welfare fare of their children Yes as I said earlier ask the peo pea pies of the world to vote between en capture of territory nf of ports or oil fields at al the price I A Aw Iw and wr-and w r r and there would b be no on ques que of 01 their choice c v L i 4 d |