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Foreign Politics, pic: circa 1930's, Jan Masaryk, Czech Diplomat and Statesman, (1886-1948) pictured when he was the Czechoslovak Ambassador to London, In 1941 he was made the Foreign Minister of the Czech government in exile and in 1945 returned to Czechoslovakia to carry on in that office, His body was found beneath an open window at the Foreign Ministry in 1948, and it was assumed he had committed suicide in a protest at the "Stalinization" of his homeland (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)