Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Busy, efficient, persuasive Foreign Minister Dr. Eduard Benes rounded out momentously, last week, the political autonomy of Czechoslovakia into complete national religious autonomy. A lingering religious fly in the honey of Czechoslovak nationalism has been constituted by the fact that certain ancient dioceses held by German and Hungarian prelates with authority from the Pope have naturally overlapped the new and sovereign frontier of Czechoslovakia. Gross and irksome has been the overlapping of the Hungarian diocese of Estergom, the German diocese of Breslau. Last week these points of friction and many another were neatly sanded down by the announcement that...
Bravest of martyrs, John Huss (c. 1373-1415) was the foremost intermediary in passing on from English Wycliffe to German Luther the torch which eventually kindled the Reformation. As such, he himself became physically a torch, burned at the stake for heresy with ecstatic words upon his lips: "In the truth of that gospel which ... I have written, taught and preached, I now joyfully die!" Such a spirit, rekindled in Czechoslovakia, stands to them for all that has cloven their new, secular republic away from the Holy and Apostolic and Most Catholic oppressions of the fallen House of Habsburg...
...most brutally frank and clarifying discussion of the continued French occupation of part of the German Rhineland* took place, last week, at long range, between Foreign Minister Dr. Gustav Stresemann, addressing the Reichstag in smashing style, and Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France, replying still more vigorously before Le Sénat, in Paris...
...Briand: "This problem of peace should be linked up with that of reparations, and I hope that the year 1928 will not close without a settlement of the grave question as a whole." Expression of such "hopes" amounts to giving notice that the whole structure of interallied debts and German reparations must shortly be readjusted. That is the view of Agent General of Reparations Seymour Parker Gilbert, who has recently conveyed his conclusions to the Cabinets at Washington, London, Paris and Berlin (TIME, Dec. 26) by personal visits to those governments...
Within the space of four days Lieutenant Commander Edward Ellsberg, the expert on naval salvage, and Count Felix von Luckner, the German sea-raider, will speak at the Union, it was announced last night. Tomorrow Lieutenant Commander Ellsberg will relate his experiences; and on Tuesday Count Luckner will tell about his adventures...