Word: czecho
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...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...
...ought to be recognized (the late war is a painful example) that the peoples of any nation--especially agricultural nations--must have a natural and accessible outlet to the sea. Italy's uncompromising control over Fiume and the surrounding country would virtually bottle up Jugo-Slavia, Austria, Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia...
...virtual prohibition of Mr. Kreisler's playing it takes an attitude that is Prussian in essence, and diametrically contrary to real Americanism. There is nothing un-American or unpatriotic in listening to great music. Art transcends international boundaries -- a thing is beautiful whether it is American, or German, or Czecho-Slovakian, in its origin. Mr. Kreisler, while he is Austrian and fought three months against Russia, being honorably discharged after wounded in defence of his country, is a genius of high calibre. His mastery of the violin places him among the first players of modern times...
...entirely mistaken notion that the Czecho-Slovaks are an uncultured and barbarian race. As a matter of fact illiteracy is practically unknown in my country, and the American Commissioner of Immigration at Washington in his official bulletin states that of all the races entering this country the Czecho-Slovaks have the lowest percentage of illiteracy...