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When King Carol II of Rumania and Crown Prince Michael, onetime (1927-30) King, went shooting with Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Benes, the King barely nosed out the Prince in a playful massacre. In six hours Michael with his shotgun slaughtered 506 pheasants, partridges, hares, rabbits. His able father made a Bohemian holiday by shooting...
Meanwhile "Germans" in the Republic of Czechoslovakia were being egged on by the official Berlin press to demand "autonomy." There were even lurid rumors in Prague that Nazis were scheming the assassination of Czechoslovak President Dr. Eduard Benes. He, famed as "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman," cracked out activity in Czechoslovakia by prohibiting for the time being political meetings of any party in the republic...
...Czechoslovak police who did not know that these zealots who tried to break through their lines were persons with parliamentary immunity. The cracked crowns of the deputies were to be investigated by Parliament committee, but Adolf Hitler's press was screaming with such rage at latest reports that Eduard Benes had need of all his proverbial adroitness to keep major strife from erupting in Czechoslovakia...
...went to the U. S. to present to President Roosevelt the ideas of these countries, who have agreed to be neutral in any coming European war (TIME, June 14, July 5). Returning with still added prestige, Paul van Zeeland seemed ready to compete with Czechoslovakia's Eduard Benes for the title of "Europe's Smartest Little Statesman...
Speakers will include Professor Lyman Bryson of Teachers College Columbia University; Eduard C. Lindeman, of the New School for Social Work, New York City; Harold Benjamin, Director of the Center for Continuation Study, University of Minnesota; Henry W. Holmes '03, Dean of the Graduate School of Education; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology and Director of the Summer School; and Professor Harry A. Overstreet, of the College of the City of New York...