Item COLD WAR 7/2 - Transcript of interview with Dr Antonin Sum, secretary to Jan Masaryk, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Dr Antonin Sum, Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry, and Private Secretary to Jan Masaryk, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs 1941-1948, relating to the importance of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Czechoslovakia, 1945-[1948]; the reaction of the Czech government to the US proposals that later became the Marshall Plan, the US European Recovery Program, [Apr] 1947; Sum's opinion of the Marshall Plan, 1948; the Czech government's stronger links with the Western Allies, [1946-1948]; the visit of Klement Gottwald, Czech Prime Minister, and Jan Masaryk, Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Moscow, USSR, Jul 1947; pressure from Soviet President Josef Vissarionovich Stalin on the Czech delegation for Czechoslovakia to reject the Marshall Plan, Jul 1947; Sum's account of the communist coup d'etat, Prague, Czechoslovakia, Feb 1948; Czech fears of a Soviet military intervention in Czechoslovakia, 1948; the reaction of Masaryk to the communist coup d'etat, Feb-Mar 1948; Sum's reaction to the reported suicide of Masaryk, Mar 1948; speculation that Masaryk was murdered, Mar 1948; Masaryk's funeral ceremony, Prague, Mar 1948.