Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month the name of Czechoslovakia was officially changed to Czecho-Slovakia. This week the hyphenation was made significant when the autonomous Slovak Government took occasion to discharge Czech (and Jewish) professors and officials in the Slovak area. "Slovakia for the Slovaks," was the slogan of a campaign which marked another big fissure in the disintegration of the State of Eduard Benes and Thomas Masaryk pulled but could not hold together...
...Scripture Reading, Luke 2, 1-19 Carols Listen Lordlings Osgood Cancion de Navidad (Radcliffe only) Austrian Carol God Rest You, Merry Gentlemen English Carol A spetless Rose Howells Congregational Hymn "Adeste Fiedlis" Masters in this Hall French Carol arranged by Gustav Holst Carol of the Tapping Shoe (Har. only) Czech Carol To God on High Decius Benediction Organ Postlude Hallelujah Chorus Handol
...Already in effect is a concession to Germany whereby trains from Annaberg and Mittehwalde to Breclav are not subject to Czech customs regulation as they cross Bohemia. A German-built canal will connect the Oder and the Danube...
...succeed resigned Dr. Benes. Nomination (tantamount to election) was done by the National Assembly, now an impotent body in the control of the State Party for National Unity, which, in turn, is dominated by the Cabinet of Premier Jan Syrovy, the one-eyed general. Week ahead of time Czech newspapers announced that Dr. Emil Hacha, 66-year-old Czech jurist, would this week be unanimously elected by the Assembly...
...substantially those who sat in Parliament before its adjournment, their party line-up was drastically changed. Pressed by Germany to remold" Czechoslovakia along totalitarian lines, the Government, five days before the session met. ordered all parties supporting it to dissolve, join one big State Party for National Unity. The Czech Agrarian and Czech National Socialist groups, the Fascist National League and part of the Czech People's Catholic Party complied. The minority Socialists, Communists and dissident Catholic deputies did not. Pending punishment for or forgiveness of their recalcitrance, they were allowed to sit as a Labor Opposition...