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...money is the hobby of Director General Vickers, who is also a very active partner in the London brokerage house of Vickers D'Acosta. Fourteen months ago a munitions scandal shook Rumania. Army officers were charged with having accepted bribes to throw arms contracts to the great Czecho-slovak firm of Skoda. One of them committed suicide, others went to jail and the Skoda contracts were canceled. Not trusting any of his salesmen, Douglas Vickers was in Bucharest last week angling for this rich Rumanian prize. At week's end his London friends had the impression that...
...Dear Father Masaryk," as Prague papers like to call him, was the son of a one-time serf, an illiterate Slovak coachman on an imperial Habsburg estate. At 13 young Masaryk was ready but too young to enter a teacher's training school. He worked for a blacksmith for a while, then went on with his schooling, supporting himself by tutoring. At 26 he earned a Ph.D. in Vienna...
Thomas Masaryk created Czechoslovakia. As a professor in Prague he vehemently preached Czech and Slovak nationalism, got himself into bad odor with the Habsburg regime and finally, just before the War, teamed up with an able little man named Eduard Benes who was to become one of the shrewdest politicians in Europe and immovable Foreign Minister in all Masaryk cabinets. The firm of Masaryk & Benes escaped the country separately after the outbreak of the War. Immediately they began a great series of journeys to Paris, London, Rome, Petrograd, Washington, to convince Allied statesmen of the wisdom of lopping the ancient...
...conference of the United Lutheran Synod of which he is president, Rev. Dr. Samuel Geiss Trexler urged formation of a Lutheran "Church of All Nations" in New York. Services would be held in English and 15 other tongues spoken by Lutherans-German, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Ukrainian, Spanish. Hungarian, Slovak, Wendish, Italian, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and French...
Three years ago the Czechoslovakian Government sentenced another Slovak Separatist to 15 years in jail for fostering just such ideas. Last week they let Father Hlinka and his fellow Slovaks talk, hoped they would do nothing...