On 4th May this year, we will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the tragic death of Milan Rastislav Štefánik near Ivanka pri Dunaji, in the vicinity of Bratislava. He was a Brigadier General in the French army, a leading figure of the exiled Czechoslovak resistance movement during the First World War and the Minister of War of the new state, which by this time, under the name, the Czechoslovak Republic, had already been recognized by the victorious allied powers. The life of M. R. Štefánik was short, dramatic and eventful. He was born on 21st July 1880 in Košariská in Western...