PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Klaban, Terry
TI  - "Why do I Honor and Love Father Masaryk?" On the Way Children's Sections of Newspapers in Interwar Czechoslovakia Formed the Image of T. G. Masaryk - Case Studies of Našim Dětem and Tribuna Mládeže
DP  - 2025 Dec 31
TA  - Bohemica Olomucensia
PG  - 34--55
VI  - 17
IP  - 1
AID - 10.5507/bo.2025.029
IS  - 1803876X
AB  - The study presents how the first president of Czechoslovakia, T. G. Masaryk, was portrayed in daily newspapers' Sunday sections for children in the interwar period. By comparing two diverse periodicals - Našim dětem from Naše politika and Tribuna mládeže from Tribuna - the author shows how these sections depicted Masaryk as a fatherly and self-sacrificing figure, as well as a leader and a liberator of the nation. In addition, they used similar motifs and narratives, for example, emphasizing his simple origins, his hard work and devotion to the country. Masaryk was presented as a role model for young readers, with the objective of fostering civic engagement and cultivating a sense of national identity. This comparison underscores the ideological function of children's media during the First Czechoslovak Republic and reveals how these portrayals mobilised emotional language and child-centric perspectives to promote loyalty, moral values, and national pride. It demonstrates that, even in newspapers without explicit political affiliations, Masaryk's image was used to promote civic education