My favorite tidbit has to do with the third defenestration of Prague (1948): It was widely viewed as a likely assassination by the communists of foreign affair

My favorite tidbit has to do with the third defenestration of Prague (1948): It was widely viewed as a likely assassination by the communists of foreign affairs minister Jan Masaryk. A clever poem emerged from it, with typically dark eastern bloc humor: “Jan Masaryk was a very tidy man. He was such a tidy man that when he jumped he shut the window after himself.” - David L. Roll, George Marshall: Defender of the Republic (2019)