Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Makropoulos Secret. Karel Capek, Czech author who wrote R. U. R. and who pronounces his name "Chapek," has fastened upon the curiously fascinating and not wholly unusual theme of one who lived beyond her time. Marty, the singer heroine of his conception, has lived 339 years and is still active...
...peculiar situation in which Austria finds itself makes some kind of action necessary. Pared down to a fraction of its former size, faced on three sides by recently subject and vajuely hostile peoples in Hungary, Jugo-Slavia, and Czech-Slovakia, the Austrians naturally look in the fourth direction for help and find the racial and historical affinities of the German republic offering them an obvious solution. It is impossible to prephesy what would be the result on the European political situation if Germany were to be reinforced by this considerable homogeneous addition. Yet the more one contemplates the situation...
...Arbitration Treaty form is well exampled in the German-Czecho-Slovakian treaty of 22 articles. The German-Polish treaty is exactly similar, and the German-French and German-Belgian treaties differ from it by the striking out of one article only, the 21st. In the German-Czech treaty...
...only 117 millions instead of 4 billions, but he had some special difficulties of his own -notably a disagreement over the principal sum. The Czecho-Slovakian debt was contracted after the War and comprised several items including purchase of War supplies, relief supplies, flour, cash ,advances, repatriation of Czech soldiers from Siberia...
...funding of Czechoslovakia's reconstruction debt of $117,000,000 to the U. S. Dr. Wilem Pospisil, Director of the Savings Bank of Prague, heads the foreign negotiators. The rest of the commission consists of Karel Kucera, Karel Barbenec, Dr. Eugene Lippansky, Zikmund Konecny and the new Czech minister to the U. S., Colonel Fierlinger...