1949 Muska Benes Receives Scholarship To Wellesley College

Muska Benes, daughter of Bohus Benes and future wife of Zbigniew Brzezinski, conveniently awarded Scholarship to Wellesley (only 19 awarded to senior high school girls) Muska was born in Switzerland into the entitled international Benes family that agitated for both world wars & were instrumental in ushering in the cold war. Her father served in its Marxist Regime for 30 plus years.

Value of 1949 Scholarship: $1,600.00 (approximately $16,600.00 in 2019)

Her older brother, Vaclav Benes, already awarded a scholarships at Harvard.

Her father's cousin Vaclav Benes (Vojta Benes son) awarded grant at McGill around the same time Zbigniew Brzezinski got his grant to study at McGill

Article leaves out that in March of 1948 The San Francisco Examiner reported that her father, Bohus Benes who was serving Communist Czechoslovakia as Czech Consul General in San Francisco at the time, demanded that American Czechs retracts words critical of Communists and the Communist coup. He praised Soviets and criticized Western Democracies. Also, in March 1948 the Oakland Tribune reported that Bohus Benes stated that the Benes Regime's complicity with the Communist Coup was an "act of heroism"

In 1943 Bohus Benes was sued for libel in London and lost. He was ensured diplomatic immunity when his uncle appointed him Consul General of Czechoslovakia in San Francisco and he and his family traveled from England to the United States in 1939 on diplomatic passports with their furniture onboard the SS Hillary. (In 2020, his granddaughter, MSNBC propagandist Mika Brzezinski, lied to the American people in an interview when she emotionally claims her mother "escaped Hitler" and arrived in the United States "with nothing")

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Oakland Tribune May 24, 1949:

Daughter of Ex-Czech Diplomat Wins Wellesley Scholarship

A little girl who once was tutored by her grand-uncle., the late Dr. Edward Benes, former president of Czechoslovakia, has grown up to be winner of a highly-valued scholarship to Wellesley College.

She is Muska A. Benes. 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bohus Benes, of 2942 Hillegass Avenue, Berkeley. Muska will graduate from Berkeley High School in ceremonies next month.

Another girl, Margaret L. Shook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Shook, of 8360 Terrace Drive. 1 Cerrito. won a similar scholarship to Smith College. She is a senior at El Cerrito High School.

The scholarships, worth $1600 and awarded for one year, were announced by the Seven College Conference. A total of 19 were awarded to senior girls all over the Nation, five of them to Californians.

Muska's father, a veteran of almost three decades in the consular and diplomatic service of Czechoslovakia and nephew of that Nation's world-famous leader, resigned last September as Czechoslovakian Consul in San Francisco with the ringing statement that he "is not and cannot be, a communist."

Now a teacher of European polltics in the University of California's extension division and at San Francisco State College, Benes' oldest son, Vaclav, also is a college scholarship winner. He is a Junior st Harvard University, specializing in the study of philosophy.

A younger son. Matej 14 is a first year student at Berkeley High School. All three children speak English, French and Czech with equal fluency. Vaclav was born in Brussels and the two younger children were born when their father was on duty in Geneva. For several years, Dr. Edward Benes. lived with the family in London during part of his exile from their country.