Collection Summary
Administrative Information
Biographical/Historical Note
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Collection Summary
Title: Michal Múdry papers
Dates: 1939-2000
Collection Number: 2006C1
Creator: Múdry, Michal
Collection Size:
12 manuscript boxes
(6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Radio broadcast scripts, correspondence, writings, memoranda, reports, and printed matter, relating mostly to Radio Free Europe
broadcasts to Czechoslovakia.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Languages:
Slovak
Languages:
Czech
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Access to sound recordings, video recordings, or motion picture material requires at least two weeks advance notice. Please
contact the Hoover Institution Archives for further information.
Publication Rights
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Michal Múdry papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 2006.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
the collection in Stanford University's online catalog Socrates at
http://library.stanford.edu/webcat . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in Socrates is larger than the number of boxes
listed in this finding aid.
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Biographical/Historical Note
| 11 May 1909 |
Born, Drétoma / Drietoma, Austro-Hungary |
| 1930-1936 |
Studied at the Faculty of Law, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
| 1936-1939 |
Public lawyer, Bratislava |
| 1939 |
Married Jarmila Navaříková |
| 1939 |
Emigrated to the U.S. |
| 1939-1978 |
Member of Slovak and Czechoslovak émigré organizations in the U.S. throughout his career |
| 1943-1944 |
Secretary to the former Czechoslovak Prime Minister Milan Hodža |
| 1945-1947 |
A Slovak Democratic Party representative in the postwar Czechoslovak government |
| 1948 |
Emigrated again to the U.S. after allegations of espionage by the Communist Party against him and other Democratic Party members |
| 1949 |
Published a book about Milan Hodža entitled
Milan Hodža v Amerike
|
| 1951 |
Editor, Radio Free Europe, Czechoslovak Desk, New York |
| 1951-1954 |
Associate Editor-In-Chief, RFE, Czechoslovak Desk, Munich, Germany |
| 1954-1970 |
Associate Editor-In-Chief, RFE, Czechoslovak Desk, New York |
| 1970-1974 |
Editor-In-Chief, RFE, Czechoslovak Desk, New York |
| 20 September 1978 |
Died, New York |
Scope and Content of Collection
Radio broadcast scripts, correspondence, writings, memoranda, reports, and printed matter, relating to Radio Free Europe
broadcasts to Czechoslovakia.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Michal Múdry
Radio Free Europe
Radio broadcasting Czechoslovakia