Word: slovak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Masaryk's Dream. Post-War history has already chosen as its darling "The Lonely Slovak in Prague."* With Wilson dead, Clemenceau withered and Lloyd George second-fiddling, it has become evident how great is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still the only president of the Czechoslovak Republic...
...told me that the Cabinet of Premier Cerný-composed mostly of bureaucrats-had been faced with serious opposition from the German and Slovak minorities ever since its formation last March. The Agrarian element of these minorities had been conciliated a few months ago by increasing the grain duties; and now Premier Cerný was about to resign, in order that a Cabinet representative of the whole nation might at last be formed...
Last week, on the 510th anniversary of John Hus's death, Czecho-Slovakia celebrated her first "Nation Day" by commemmorating Hus. Up went the Hussite flag over the Presidential Castle and loud and strong were the cries from Rome. The Papal Nuncio was recalled and the Czecho-Slovak Minister to the Holy See was ordered to return to Prague. The situation had the earmarks of a first-class...
...sure, the Hussite celebrations were only part of the causes of Catholic hostility. In Catholic eyes the Czecho-slovak State was formed by a group of heretics and, as a matter of fact, the leaders of the nation are today mainly Protestant or "liberal freethinkers." One of the first things done when the new Republic had caught its wind was to seize Church property, much to the discomfiture of Rome, and then to make a bold bid for a National Church. The Hussite celebrations were the sparks which caused the explosion...
...Slovak village-the Protestants are mainly Czechs-a priest rashly called President Masaryk a heretic. Gendarmes arrested him after a struggle with the people in which many were wounded, one killed...