Word: czecho
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Almost lost in the stir created by the visit of Winston Churchill and his military entourage was another European statesman: stubby, sad-eyed Eduard Benes, Czecho-Slovakia's President in Exile. At the White House, where he was an overnight guest, Eduard Benes got a warm welcome; Franklin Roosevelt promptly raised to Embassy status the U.S. Legation credited to the Czech Government in London (see p. 82). Then the two Presidents sat up far into the night, ranging over the field of Central European relations...
...Czecho-SIovakia's Eduard Benes is due this week, President Edwin Barclay and President-elect William V. S. Tubman of Liberia late this month...
...planned. Reason: the State Department reduced his itinerary to appearances in New York and Chicago (which CzechoSlovaks call their "second largest city"). One of the cities omitted from his tour is Philadelphia, where expatriate Thomas Masaryk in 1918 signed the declaration which proclaimed the existence and freedom of Czecho-Slovakia...
...statements] were ill chosen." Instead of pleading with the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union to re-establish a Poland, Sikorski goes ahead and formulates plans for a miniature cordon sanitaire composed of small eastern countries to block off Russia, and even entertains hopes of acquiring Czecho-Slovakian territory...
Gymnastics is the baseball of transplanted Czecho-Slovakian, Swiss and German Americans. Largest of these groups is the 100,000 U.S. Bohemians who be long to the worldwide Sokol organization (1,000,000 members), started in 1862 by Dr. Miroslav Tyrs of Prague. Next largest group is the American Turners, a confederation of German-descended Turner Societies...