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Karel Čapek
Karel Čapek was a Czech writer and journalist of the interwar republic and a friend of President Masaryk. His play R.U.R. of 1920 introduced the word robot, coined by his brother Josef, and his novel War with the Newts satirised fascism and greed. A leading democrat, he died in December 1938, soon after the Munich Agreement.
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