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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...
President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, "Father of the Czecho-Slovak Republic," celebrated his 75th birthday and with him celebrated the entire nation, which adores him and has reason...
...Presidential Palace at Prague. The children from each region presented the President with a simple present and each child was presented with a small present from the President. Among the gifts the President received were: national emblem from Bohemia, basket of painted eggs from Moravia, a doll in Slovak costume from Slovakia, decorated plates from Silesia...
...Autonomy was promised to the minority races when the Czecho-Slovak Nation came into existence in 1918?in the case of the Slovaks, as early as the Pittsburgh meeting of 1917. For reasons ascribable to conditions in Central Europe and to the youth of the Republic, none of these promises has been honored. By the Constitution of 1920, the Czecho-Slovak State is a single and indivisible unity. Hence, as a protest, the minority Deputies declined to attend Parliament. ? Austria and Hungary, states contiguous to Czecho-Slovakia, have financial controllers acting under the authority of the League of Nations...
Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, President of Czecho-Slovakia, "Father of the Czecho-Slovak Republic," friend of the late U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, lay ill in bed at Prague, capital of the Republic. In what was said to be his "last statement and testament," he bequeathed some advice to the Nation. He counseled the country to work for the creation of a Danube Federation* as the best hope for the future of Central Europe...