Word: ruthenia
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...native. (In Albania his glibness brought him under suspicion of being a Jugoslav spy.) Author Baerlein says of himself: "Henry Baerlein has this resemblance to a happy country in tint he is rather devoid of history. . . ." Other hooks: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March of the 70,000, Mariposa, Dreamy Rivers (TIME...
Each little country of Eastern Europe hates & fears the next. Last week Bishop Papp of Miskolcz in Hungary obtained a carload of potatoes, consigned them to starving persons of his faith in Ruthenia, which is part of Czechoslovakia, sat back and waited for Ruthenian thanks, which failed to arrive...
...largely "calm and peaceful," except in Mexico (where he collided with Yucatan authorities), Albania (where his linguistic excellence got him suspected as a Yugoslav spy, and where a man in Durazzo is still waiting to kill him). Other books: The House of the Fighting Cocks, Over the Hills of Ruthenia, The March of the 70,000, Mariposa, On the Forgotten Road...
...Government of Czecho-Slovakia?the recognition of a Government over a country that did not exist. His triumph was not delayed, for on Oct. 28, 1918, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Narodni Vybor (National Council) took over the governments of the countries of Bohemia, Moravia, Ruthenia, Silesia and Slovakia, which had formerly belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Less than a month later (Nov. 14, 1918) the National Assembly met at Prague?capital of Czecho-Slovakia?and formally declared the State of Czechoslovakia to be a Republic and elected Masaryk, who was in New York...