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...frontier guards of Hungary and Czecho-Slovakia collided near Kosice (formerly Kashau). One Czecho-Slovak was killed. The Prague Government made representations to Budapest, but the Royal Hungarian Government assumed a non possumus attitude. The Czecho-Slovakian Government, determined to have the matter out, closed the frontier to all Hungarians. A few days later Hungary recognized her responsibility and communications became normal...
...removal of the communists from the Chamber, and a few moments later the Parliamentary Guard carried the unruly members out to the martial strains of The Red Flag. The Government's victory was, however, short lived. As soon as the last reverberating echoes had died away the Slovak People's Party took up the turbulent tactics of the communists, and successfully prevented the reading of the bill for some time. In the end they too left the Chamber and the bill was read to the remaining but exhausted members...
...many respects, the Czecho-Slovak situation is similar to that of India, where native dialects are even more numerous. And in the Indian universities, the question has been solved in the same way. English is the language of education, like Latin in the days before the European tongues crystallized into definite form. Probably the reaction of India in favor of native languages, native traditions and literature will have its counterpart in Czecho-Slovakia if English is too widely employed. At present, however, nothing retards its extensive use in advertising and road signs; even means, which are often printed in French...
...Keating's official position is Consultant to the Bureau of National Information, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the Czecho-Slovak Republic. He is an American by nationality, who went over to Europe, impelled by his interest in the new Republic. While there he became connected with the Bureau of National Information and has travelled all over the country since its creation by the Peace Conference. He has made a special study of the Czecho-Slovak constitution, which is generally regarded as the groundwork of the most advanced democracy in the world. In America he is lecturing on what...
...Czecho-Slovak Mission Here...