Word: bohemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Slovaks has long given the impression that they are all devoutly Catholic, anti-German, anti-Czech, antiCommunist, preeminently pro-Slovak. Their hilly land (14,484 sq. mi.) had been a part of Hungary for 1,011 years when, in 1918, the Versailles peacemakers joined Slovakia to Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and created Czechoslovakia. (Ruthenia, which the Russians entered last week, became a part of Czechoslovakia in 1919, was seized by Hungary...
Astute Dr. Benes recently trimmed his sails to the Slovak wind, watered down his previous insistence upon a centralized Czechoslovak government. Said he: "I, myself, believe that the decentralization of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia-to the degree that is especially necessary in Slovakia-is a matter of course...
...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...