Word: czecho
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...Czecho-Slovakia's enterprising new government has undertaken to establish a modern public school system. The diversity of races makes this a problem of peculiar difficulty, for five principal divisions, Czechs, Maygars, Germans, Poles and Ruthenes demand instruction for their children in their respective mother tongues. As a result, the schools in all large cities must have five teachers for every class, carrying on the same work simultaneously in the five languages. Naturally, this duplication results in expense and waste. But with a shrewd eye to the future, the authorities have prescribed English for all students, so that, gradually...
Three million rifles, 125,000 machine guns, and 40 aeroplanes were ordered by the Bolsheviki from Sweden, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia...
...great success produced by the Theatre Guild of New York; a Czecho-Slovakian play of quite some merit will bear reading. SET THE STAGE FOR EIGHT, by Doris F. Halman, a collection of unusual one-act plays, excellent alike for reading and acting, will prove a mine of entertainment and no little instruction...
...Czecho-Slovakia, the only nation of Central Europe ready to pay her debts...
Under their Bishop-elect, Adrot, several thousand Roman Catholic priests have founded in France a new Church. The tradition of celibacy of the clergy is 1,000 years old, but they have decided to break with this tradition. Bishops of similar churches in Holland, Switzerland, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Hungary will be present at Adrot's consecration, which is scheduled for late in April. Two of these had been duly consecrated as bishops before their break with Rome. The new church therefore claims apostolic succession, and the same authoritative basis as the Church of England...