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Last week, on the 510th anniversary of John Hus's death, Czecho-Slovakia celebrated her first "Nation Day" by commemmorating Hus. Up went the Hussite flag over the Presidential Castle and loud and strong were the cries from Rome. The Papal Nuncio was recalled and the Czecho-Slovak Minister to the Holy See was ordered to return to Prague. The situation had the earmarks of a first-class...
...sure, the Hussite celebrations were only part of the causes of Catholic hostility. In Catholic eyes the Czecho-slovak State was formed by a group of heretics and, as a matter of fact, the leaders of the nation are today mainly Protestant or "liberal freethinkers." One of the first things done when the new Republic had caught its wind was to seize Church property, much to the discomfiture of Rome, and then to make a bold bid for a National Church. The Hussite celebrations were the sparks which caused the explosion...
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From numerous other sources came the news that France had ordered large quantities of munitions from the Skoda factories in Czecho-Slovakia; that France and Spain, in conference at Madrid, had decided to blockade the Riff coastline; that Abd-el-Krim, Riff leader, was using old A. E. F. equipment...