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...national. The Czechoslovak Sokol, oldest national gymnastic organization in the world, was founded in 1862 by Philosopher Author Dr. Miroslav Tyrs and Dr. Jindrich Fügner. The name Sokol, meaning falcon, was adopted because it is the traditional name for Czech folk-song heroes. During the years of Habsburg dominance, Sokol groups served to keep Czech nationalism alive. When the World War broke out members filtered into Allied armies, formed Sokol legions to fight their old masters. Today, the Sokol numbers some 800,000 men, women and children, one out of every 20 in the population, organized...
...Czechs enjoyed independence under their own rulers from the tenth to the early 16th Century. At that time they gradually were subjected to Habsburg domination and in 1620, the Czech nobles were wiped out at the Battle of the White Mountain. Over a thousand years ago the Slovaks had been beaten into submission by the Hungarian Magyars. Through the centuries these peoples, like the Poles and the Irish, kept alive their national culture, agitated for liberation. The World War and Woodrow Wilson gave them their chance. Three Czech patriots actually achieved the nation's independence: gaunt, bearded Philosophy Professor...
...Ukrainians, constitute the largest national minority in Europe. The Slavs held the Sudeten region as early as the Sixth Century but in the Twelfth Germans filtered in as monks, townsmen, traders, artisans. They naturally became the manufacturers of the 19th Century Bohemian industrial revolution. Favored by the Habsburg regime, they looked down on their agricultural Czech, Slovak neighbors. In the post-War years, when the Czechs became the top-dogs they turned the national trade to their allies and friends, which dried up Sudeten markets in Austria, Hungary, gradually supplanted German capital with Czech, eased out Sudeten workers, filled Sudeten...
...royal visit was plainly calculated as a gesture which would impress and cheer up the 250,000 unhappy, German-speaking Italian Tyroleans, former subjects of the pomp-displaying Habsburg emperors, more than any blustering, oratorical visit by II Duce could. Living quietly in Naples, the tall, 33-year-old heir to the crown of Italy has been none too ardent a believer in Fascism, has silently but successfully sidestepped Fascist activities...
Married. Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 40, pretender to the Hungarian throne; and Kathlin Bocskai, 22, onetime Hungarian schoolteacher; in Budapest. Like his cousin, Archduke Carlos (see above), Albrecht's marriage (his second) cost him his royal rank...