Word: moravia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vladivostok to rejoin their comrades in the homeland. It was smart for President Benes to give out last week that "yielding to fresh foreign pressure" he was unable to appoint as Premier General Syrovy, the people's choice, but had to choose instead a civilian, the Governor of Moravia, Jan Cerny- especially since it turned out a few hours later that redoubtable General Syrovy had actually been appointed Premier and had instantly ordered mobilization of an army of 2,000,000. The jaunty, daredevil figure of one-eyed Premier-General Jan Syrovy was just what the Czechoslovak Republic needed...
...anti-Semitic decree, which was limited to excluding the 20,000 Jews who have entered Italy since the War. Eager to please the Dictator, many Italian employers have been firing Jews, many Jews have fearfully resigned important posts. Last week it was learned that the brilliant Jewish correspondent, Alberto Moravia, after being fired by the People's Gazette of Turin, wrote directly to Premier Mussolini, asking if the Dictator had ever issued orders for Jewish journalists to be booted from their jobs. Promptly the Premier gave the Turin Gazette's editor a wigging, and rehired was Meritorious...
...last week in his native Zlin (which lies in Moravia well back of the Sudeten German district), Shoe Master Jan Bat'a, half brother and successor to the late founder, Thomas Bat'a, who was killed when his private plane crashed (TIME, July 25, 1932), felt obliged to make an answer. He announced in the Bat'a magazine Zlin that he had sent German officials genealogical data tracing his Roman Catholic ancestry back...
Birth, Czechoslovakia, some 600 miles long but only 45 to 175 miles wide, has four provinces. Were it a fish the head would be Bohemia, inhabited largely by Czechs with Germans predominating along the western Sudeten border. The body would be the provinces of Moravia & Silesia, largely Czech populated, and Slovakia, thick with Slovaks, who are Slavs like the Czechs. The tail would be Carpathian Ruthenia...
...political novel could be considered out of line, even in such a rectilinear country as Duceland. But, though the book was not suppressed, the Italian press gave it not a single mention. Reason: The ruler of Rome's hive does not approve of such Roman drones as Moravia writes about, prefers to ignore their existence...