Word: catholicism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Terms of the modus vivendi: 1) Roman Catholic diocesan boundaries to be revised where not in conformity with the Czechoslovak frontier; 2) Roman Catholic heads of religious houses, provincial superiors, army chaplains, Bishops and Archbishops in Czechoslovakia to be created exclusively from among Czechoslovaks who must be acceptable to its...
Bravest of martyrs, John Huss (c. 1373-1415) was the foremost intermediary in passing on from English Wycliffe to German Luther the torch which eventually kindled the Reformation. As such, he himself became physically a torch, burned at the stake for heresy with ecstatic words upon his lips: "In the...
*During the pourparlers Dr. Benes advanced for bargaining purposes an extremely wily contention. He held that the ancient right of the Anointed Habsburgs to make Roman Catholic appointments in their realm had descended "naturally" to the present Republican State.
Then in 1821 across the Sabine River came mild-mannered Stephen F. Austin of Missouri and his band of settlers "to redeem Texas from its wilderness state by means of the plow alone." Paradoxically, these people became loyal citizens of the Mexican Republic and ousted rebels from the land. But...
The Playwright. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill is the son of actor James O'Neill, famed across the U. S. in earlier days as Monte Cristo. With his trouping father and a devoted mother, not an actress, he spent staccato years in larger cities where James O'Neill was acting. After...