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...Year-Old. Every alert U. S. citizen remembers that President Woodrow Thomas Wilson was the Godfather of Czechoslovakia. Without his decisive intervention the new state might have been snuffed out as soon as born. But of course every Czech and Slovak knows that the Father of Czechoslovakia is Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, first and still President of the Republic...
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...
...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...