In 1968, he was in Vienna when the Prague spring erupted; he briefly returned to Czechoslovakia and wrote an account of the subject for Penguin (Prague Spring: A Report On Czechoslovakia 1968).
She was US representative to the UN General Assembly during late 1969 and went on to hold two US ambassador positions - as ambassador to Ghana from 1974-77 (under Gerald Ford) and to the then Czechoslovakia under George HW Bush from 1989-92.
Games with a strong England, an excellent France and a solid Czechoslovakia team are remembered more now for the head of the Kuwaiti FA striding onto the pitch mid-game to tell the referee that a fourth French goal should be disallowed (the official obeyed).
While the Czechoslovak partition is widely seen as a model of how to divide a country peacefully, Abby Innes, a lecturer at the London School of Economics and author of Czechoslovakia: The Short Goodbye, argues against using it as the template for other dissolutions.
Born in Czechoslovakia, he became a naturalised Englishman after the communist coup d'etat of 1948, and taught at British universities for 40 years before he retired to Prague after the fall of communism in 1989.
After that glimpse, Zeman resolved to flee Czechoslovakia.
It all began then, with the split of Czechoslovakia.
Those people included a unique person the late Vaclav Havel, a playwright and dissident born under a communist dictatorship who went on to be President of a free Czechoslovakia.
After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by the Soviets, Anka fled again with her second husband – to arrive as a refugee, "happy and lucky, in Cardiff".
Lord Beecham, a Labour peer who is also a councillor in Newcastle, said: "Neville Chamberlain spoke of pre-war Czechoslovakia as 'a faraway country of which we know nothing'.
She became US ambassador to Ghana (1974-76) and White House chief of protocol (1976-77), durinGerald Fordrd's presidency; foreign affairs officer with the state department under Reagan; and ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1989-92) under George HW Bush.
