Word: slovakian
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...north. Budapest held with German-made firmness; Red Army units which advanced to its outskirts three weeks before had gone no farther. But eastward Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's divisions snapped railroads and highways one by one, captured town after town, reached to within 23 miles of the Slovakian border. Budapest was being flanked...
President Tiso's powerful Prime Minister is Bela Tuka, an outright pro-Nazi who was condemned to death for treason in 1929, later reprieved by Czechoslovakia's merciful President Eduard Benes. A bitter anti-Czech, Karol Sidor, is Slovakian Minister to the Vatican. He and Father Tiso constantly remind Catholic Slovaks that most of Czechoslovakia's leaders in exile are Protestant...
...Welsh villagers feel deeply and simply the fate of the Czecho-Slovakian miners they might have been. The makers of the film have had the great good sense to do their jobs unobtrusively, and to leave the rest to the reverent, simple acting of real, deeply moved, everyday human beings...
...statements] were ill chosen." Instead of pleading with the U.S., Great Britain and the Soviet Union to re-establish a Poland, Sikorski goes ahead and formulates plans for a miniature cordon sanitaire composed of small eastern countries to block off Russia, and even entertains hopes of acquiring Czecho-Slovakian territory...
Gymnastics is the baseball of transplanted Czecho-Slovakian, Swiss and German Americans. Largest of these groups is the 100,000 U.S. Bohemians who be long to the worldwide Sokol organization (1,000,000 members), started in 1862 by Dr. Miroslav Tyrs of Prague. Next largest group is the American Turners, a confederation of German-descended Turner Societies...