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...centenary of the birth of Czech Composer Antonin Dvorak was celebrated last week. In London, Eduard Benes and members of the Czech Government attended Dvorak memorial concerts in Albert Hall. But in what is now the protectorate of Bohemia the birthday went virtually without public notice...
...Bohemia, orchestras are no longer allowed to play Dvorak's bouncing Slavonic Dances, his mournful Dumky (elegies), his evocations of Bohemia's folklore. For Dvorak's nationalist music speaks patriotically plain to Czech hearts...
...until Redon was 35 did he find his best refuge from reality in charcoal drawing and lithography. He took no part in Paris' gregarious Bohemia, knew intimately very few of the Left Bank great. Prim and methodical in his daily life, he worked continuously in a small parlor full of old-fashioned furniture and knickknacks, wore white cloth gloves while working, took an occasional evening off to drink tea with a small circle of intimate friends: the poet Mallarme, the composer Ernest Chausson, the decadent novelist Joris Karl Huysmans...
...Bohemia sabotage in the Skoda munitions works was so bad that the Germans had to exchange 3,000 Czech workers for Italians...
Whatever the planes, the lesson of the raid was simple. Its radius described an arc which included all of Germany proper, part of Poland's once-vaunted "industrial triangl," all of Polish Silesia, with its iron and coal mines and munitions factories, all of Bohemia-Moravia, the whole of Austria, Hungary as far as Budapest, and, at the very edge of the arc's lower end, Rome...