Word: bohemia
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...parallel Czechoslovak action in Russia and France, an aged philosopher had performed one of the major miracles of the epoch: the deliverance of a nation across 3,000 miles of water. The son of a Slovak coachman restored the pride in nationhood King Charles IV had brought to Bohemia 600 years before...
...east. The Count has only to look into his own heart-or his own lineage-to know that nationalism is, as he says, "an incurable disease." His mother was an ivory-skinned Japanese girl who forswore the Orient to follow the Count's father to an estate in Bohemia. When her husband died, leaving her with seven children, the amazing Mitsuko Coudenhove-Kalergi proved her Europeanization and her internationalization by administering the family estates and raising her brood as citizens of the "dual" Austro-Hungarian monarchy of the Habsburgs...
Next day, in a soft voice and broken accent, Eduard Benes addressed the two Houses of Congress, recalled for his listeners Bismarck's once-famed phrase: "Whoever is master of Bohemia is master of Europe." Added the Czech President: "Europe must, therefore, never allow any nation except the Czechs to rule it [Bohemia], since that nation does not lust for domination...
Czechs-in-exile hoped that this marked the end of perhaps the chillest atrocity chapter in modern history. But, two days later, the killings started anew. The German radio announced the execution of the onetime puppet Premier of Bohemia-Moravia, General Alois Elias, who had been sentenced to death eight months earlier...
...Heydrich funeral pyre. Often they chose those merely suspected of approving of the attack on Heydrich. But they did not find the two patriots, possibly Czech parachutists dropped from British planes, who had struck down the No. 2 Gestapoman. Dr. Emil Hácha, puppet President of the Bohemia-Moravia Protectorate, offered a 10,000,000-crown reward ($340,000 at pre-war exchange values) for the executioners of the Executioner. It was not good enough...