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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bienvenu [Welcome], M. le Président...
...Brazil had made up and were again exchanging Ambassadors. To Berlin will go Brazilian Under Secretary of State Dr. Cyro de Freitas Valle, onetime first secretary of the Brazilian Embassy in Washington and a cousin of Foreign Minister Dr. Oswaldo Aranha; to Rio de Janeiro will go Dr. Curt Prüfer, onetime German Minister to Ethiopia, chief of the personnel of the German Foreign Office...
Most likely to be M. le Président No. 6 to finish the full term of office is the incumbent, Albert Lebrun, whose seven years as "prisoner of Marianne" end May 10. Last week, the Cabinet of Premier Edouard Daladier set the date for the next election. On April 5 the members of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate will, according to tradition, travel to Versailles, eleven miles from Paris, constitute themselves into a National Assembly and, in the Palace of Louis XIV, elect by majority vote the 15th President of the Republic...
Although Czechoslovakia became a republic soon after the War-when it was created out of detached fragments of neighboring monarchies-its school system was not made over until a decade later. The agent of that change was a clean-shaven, energetic, gesticulating educator. Dr. Vaclav Príhoda, 45, who studied at Columbia's Teachers College and the University of Chicago, the two great springs of modern educational ideas in the U. S. He returned to Czechoslovakia with a burning zeal for the educational theories of Philosopher John Dewey...
...where schools are controlled by local boards of education, Dewey's ideas have made slow and sporadic progress. Czechoslovakia, which has a national school system, moved more swiftly. In 1929 Dr. Príhoda was appointed to head a national school reform committee by Socialist Education Minister Ivan Dérer. First step of the reformers was to start experimental progressive schools in a few cities. So rapidly did the progressive movement spread that by 1933 the Ministry of Education decreed a revision of the curriculum for the entire country, permitted progressive methods in all schools...