Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Keating, special envoy from Czecho-Slovakia to the United States will speak this evening at 8.15 o'clock in the Trophy Room of the Union. His subject will be "Czecho-Slovakia: the European Outpost Against Bolshevism...
...Keating's official position is Consultant to the Bureau of National Information, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Czecho-Slovak Republic. He is an American by nationality, who went over to Europe, impelled by his interest in the new Republic. While there he became connected with the Bureau of National Information and has travelled all over the country since its creation by the Peace Conference. He has made a special study of the Czecho-Slovak constitution, which is generally regarded as the groundwork of the most advanced democracy in the world. In America he is lecturing on what...
...Keating believes that Czecho-Slovakia, by virtue of the education and character of its people, and its geographical position, is holding Bolshevism at bay, and preventing its spread through Europe. To to this aspect of the importance of the country he will devote the major part of his address. It is expected that he will also touch on the relations of Czecho-Slovakia to Poland and Jugo-Slavia...
...plans the Union has put into effect. This series will begin on Tuesday, November 30, when the Honorable Mark Sheldon, Australian Commissioner to the United States, will speak on "Australian Commissioner to the United States, will speak on "Australian Labor Legislation." James Keating, Special Envoy from Czecho-Slovakia, will be the second speaker under the new plan, and Mark Sullivan, the famous newspaper correspondent, who will lecture on "Journalism" on Monday, December 13, will be the third...
...opening chapter puts the conference in its setting and describes its methods of work, besides indicating the nature of the questions it had to settle. The principal problems are then passed in review Belgium and Schleswig, Alsace-Lorraine, the Left Bank of the Rhine, the Saar Valley, Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, Austria-Hungary, the Italian frontier and the states of the Balkans. The historical background is given in each case, but each problem is placed in the perspective of the negotiations at Paris and viewed primarily as one calling for practical solution in the treaties of peace. Particular attention...