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Annex 5 III G - Hn./He. Prague, 23rd I.1945. 12 Subject: M a s t n ý, Vojtěch, Dr. former envoy in Berlin, dzt. Chairman of the Commercial Bank in Prague, born 8.3.i87a in Prag, protectorate member, resident, Prague Zix, Jan v. Werth Str. 9. M a s t n ý attended a high school in Prague and passed the Matura in 1892, he then conducted legal and philosophical studies at the Universities of Prague and Paris, at the Gcrbonne and Ecole des charles, and completed his studies in 'ahre l899 at the Juridical Faculty of the Czech University in Prague ah. From 190l to 199l9 he worked as an official of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, he was accepted into the diplomatic service when the Czech-Slovak Republic was established and represented the ČsR as an envoy in London from 1920 to 1923, from 1925 to 1932 as an emissary in Ron, from 1932 to 1938 as an ambassador in Berlin. He belonged as president of the Association for International Law in Prague and as a member of the Int. Law Association in London and the Academie Diplo- matique Internale in Paris. Mastný is the owner of various foreign orders (the Grand Cross of the Romanian Crown, the Grand Cross the Romanian Star, the Great Cross the Italian Crown) and was the Grand Officer of the Order of the Pritic Empire and Aomman deur of the French Legion of Honour. l938 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the German Eagle on the occasion of his farewell visit to Reichsausenminister v. Ribbentrop. Some of Mastný's reports from his time as envoy in Berlin reveal a remarkable change in attitude towards the Reich and National Socialism. from his skeptical attitude, Benesch, expressed in 1937 that he had the impression that Ambassador Mastný had been subordinated to the influence of the National Socialist movement by his permanent stay in Germany and so to speak scared. -2-