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...squad and their birth-places are as follows: Louis Oravsky, Czecho-Slovakia; Graham Allen, North Carolina; Harry Jensen, Denmark; Alexander Yesczanin, Russia; Maurice Blomme, Belgium; Peter Woody, Georgia; Felix Loera, Mexico; Andrew Hirchow, Poland; and Ljubousir Antonijevich, Serbia...
...known. The original squad contained one American, born in Rhode Island and brought up in Massachusetts, who could neither read nor write when he joined the Army, and eight foreigners, most of whom could not even speak English. There was a Swede, a Finn, a Frenchman; a Serbian, a Czecho Slovakian, a Mexican, a Pole, and a Russian. These men are graduates of the Army School at Camp Dix, one of six Army Schools which take the illiterate and non-English speaking recruits and by means of a thorough course in English and citizenship, coupled with instruction in the fundamental...
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...