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The relationship between Tomáš G. Masaryk and Karel Kramář (1860–1937) in the quarter-century before World War I forms a significant chapter in modern Czech history. Almost every issue that affected the nation’s political fortunes was on their agenda. From the time of their cooperation in the original Realist movement in 1889 until the outbreak of the war they strove, sometimes as allies, often as rivals, to win equal rights, material improvements, and social justice for the Czechs and other minority nationalities in Habsburg Austria.
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Hermann Bahr, Selbstbildnis (Berlin: Fischer, 1923), p. 176. Letter of F. L. Rieger to Marie Riegrovâ, 30 Jan. 1887, cited in Bohumil Némec, Antonin Pimper and Vojtéch Holecek (eds), Sbornik Dra Karla Kramare (Prague: Praiskâ Akciovâ tiskârna, 1930) p. 277.
T. G. Masaryk, Nynéjsi krise a desorganisace mladodeské strany (Prague: E. Beaufort, 1903) p. 34. Julius Grégr was titular head of the Young Czech Party and major owner of Ncirodnl listy. In 1886 he permitted scurrilous articles attacking Masaryk and his colleagues to appear in the newspaper, and he wrote a pamphlet in the same vein.
Quoted in Draga B. Shillinglaw (ed.), The Lectures of Professor T. G. Masaryk at the University of Chicago, Summer 1902 (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1978) p. 113.
Stanley B. Winters, ‘Jan Otto, T. G. Masaryk, and the Czech National Encyclopedia’, Jahrbücher far Geschichte Osteuropas, 31 (1983) no. 4, pp. 516–42.
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Winters, S.B. (1990). T. G. Masaryk and Karel Kramář: Long Years of Friendship and Rivalry. In: Winters, S.B. (eds) T. G. Masaryk (1850–1937). Studies in Russia and East Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20596-7_8
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