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Thus it is that august Britannica's list of contributors for the 14th Edition includes, besides Tunney, and besides the greatest scholars on scholarly subjects, such arresting names as Lon Chaney, Edward F. Albee, Alice Foote MacDougall; Henry Ford, President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, Samuel R. ("Roxy") Rothafel, Lincoln Clark Andrews (U. S. Prohibition Chief, 1925-27), George Jean Nathan, Jesse L. Lasky, George Eastman, etc., etc., etc. (Contributors are discoverable in a list printed with the introduction. Articles are only initialed...
...first President of Slovakia seemed to be a Professor Mihalusz, at least he had signed the super-crisp letter. What more natural? Even Siamese know that the President of Czechoslovakia is Professor Masaryk. Obviously Slovakia must have seceded from Czecho, and of course the secessionists had chosen another professor as their President. The capitol of the new state appeared to be Trencsen, and why not? The whole thing seemed so natural to the statesmen of drowsy Bangkok that they thought it superfluous to drop a cable query Europeward...
Last week tall, patriarchal President Masaryk received from Dr. Svehla his resignation as Prime Minister. For a whole year the pallid statesman has been trying to arrest the course of a malignant disease at various European spas. In the case of the Mystery Man, "ill health" is no mere excuse, but the true and tragic reason for a great statesman's retirement...
...shall not appoint your successor," said President Masaryk to Dr. Svehla, "perhaps you may yet recover your health...
Reason: while Masaryk and Benes were working for Czechoslovak independence in Allied countries, during the War, Svehla remained in what now is Czechoslovakia but then was Austria, superintending from within the struggle for independence which Masaryk and Benes carried on from without. Such a man deserves the highest, most exceptional honor ? which he received last week. Always close-mouthed and secretive, Dr. Svehla probably was glad that the world press almost totally ignored his passing, last week...