Madeleine Albright, the first woman to hold the post of US Secretary of State – Denník N

Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has died at the age of 84, her family said on Wednesday. Albright, who was born in Prague and left for the United States in 1948 with her parents, was a central figure in President Bill Clinton’s administration. Madeleine Albright (78) was born in Prague as Marie Jana Korbelová. As a child, she had to flee Czechoslovakia twice. Before the Nazis and after the communist coup in 1948. Under President Bill Clinton, she became involved in the Balkans and the Middle East as head of American diplomacy. She is a passionate supporter of Hillary Clinton as President of the United States. PHOTO – TASR / AP “With a broken heart, we announce that Dr. Madeleine K. Albright, the 64th United States Secretary of State and the first woman in the office, died today. The cause was cancer. She was surrounded by family and friends. We lost a loving mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and girlfriend, “the family said in a statement. She first served as US Ambassador to the United Nations and then became Secretary of State in her second term. It has pushed for NATO enlargement and the Alliance’s intervention in the Balkans to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing, to reduce nuclear proliferation, and to promote human rights and democracy around the world. A native of Prague, Albrightová was born into a Prague Jewish family as Marie Jana Korbelová. She was baptized and raised as a Catholic, she said she learned of her Jewish origins only after the Washington Post published a report in which her grandparents Arnošt and Olga Korbelovci and her grandmother Ružena Spieglová and several relatives became victims. the Holocaust. Her father Jozef Korbel was a Czechoslovak diplomat. After Hitler’s occupation of the rest of Czechoslovakia in March 1939, he and his family left for London, serving in the government in exile. After the war, they returned to Czechoslovakia, but after the communist coup in 1948, they left for the United States. Albright graduated from Wellesley College, she was married to Joseph Albright, with whom she divorced in 1983. Little three children. She graduated with a master’s and doctoral degree from Columbia University, graduating in 1976 before embarking on a decade-long career in government service and foreign affairs. Brooches as a Message Albright was also known to wear brooches or decorative pins to express her foreign policy messages. When she found out that the Russians were listening to the Foreign Ministry, she wore a brooch in the shape of a large bug at the next meeting. When Saddam Hussein spoke of Albright as a snake, she began wearing a golden snake pin; when she was called a witch, she proudly waved a miniature whisk. (cnn)