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Thomas Masaryk created Czechoslovakia. As a professor in Prague he vehemently preached Czech and Slovak nationalism, got himself into bad odor with the Habsburg regime and finally, just before the War, teamed up with an able little man named Eduard Benes who was to become one of the shrewdest politicians in Europe and immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient...
Birthdays. Adolph Lewisohn, philanthropist, 85; Queen Mary of England, 67; Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakia's Minister for Foreign Affairs, 50; James Joseph ("Gene'') Tunney, 36. Died. Henry T. Koenig, 42, radium authority, developer of a reduction system which greatly cut radium costs; of cancer of the hip; in Denver. He was the last to die (from radioactivity) of 21 onetime assistants to Mme Marie Sklodowska Curie...
...only over Czechoslovakia but over Poland and Rumania as well. Upon the board of Skoda, which the Union Europeenne controls through 56 per cent of its stock, M. Schneider sits with his friend Andre Vicaire, Director General of Schneider-Creusot; his brother-in-law, Arnold de Saint-Sauveur; Eduard Benes, who, as Czechoslovakia's Foreign Minister, takes second place to no one in the vocal support he lends to the League of Nations; teresting to note in view of later facts, very heavy financial contributors to Hitler's political success. Political France and political Germany may be at constant swords...
When last week on the stage of the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia Dancer Eduard Borovansky of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe heaved a silvered wooden hammer at the head of a gilded wooden nail (which he hit), history was also made. But history of a lighter mood. Union Pacific, the first U. S. ballet to reach the repertory of the great Russian school of dancing made famous by Serge Diaghilev, had had its world premiere...
...Powers." So from Vienna last week wrote Sir Philip Gibbs, a British journalist with such an imposing reputation that he does not hesitate to advise the British Government. In Prague three days later the Habsburg restoration talk was taken up by Czechoslovakia's eternal Foreign Minister, Eduard Benes. Said he: "The Habsburgs cannot be separated from their history, and although they may personally be agreeable, even their presence in Austria and Hungary as private residents would endanger the peace of Europe. Jugoslavia and Italy are particularly threatened by possible restoration, since the Habsburg crown would exert a great temptation...