Word: sokol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Czechoslovakia staged another display of her forces-of those who would form the backbone of her second-line defense. The event was the tenth Congress and athletic carnival of the Sokols, lasting a full month. Sokol Congresses, scheduled every six years, are much older than the modern Olympic Games and, like the ancient Olympics, their background is strongly national. The Czechoslovak Sokol, oldest national gymnastic organization in the world, was founded in 1862 by Philosopher Author Dr. Miroslav Tyrs and Dr. Jindrich Fügner. The name Sokol, meaning falcon, was adopted because it is the traditional name...
...male members are a storehouse of well-trained manpower for the nation's efficient standing army of 180,000 men. Significantly an important part of the Sokol Congress activities is the army's defense demonstrations...
...Congress, expected to draw a million Czech and foreign visitors, marks the 20th anniversary of the birth of the nation. An allegorical pageant, "Construction and Defense," to be performed by 3,000 members eight times during the Congress, will picture the republic's 20 years, the Sokol contributions to its development...
...defenses. With a standing army of 180,000, which may be upped by 1,500,000 reserves, many of them Sokol-trained, a force of 1,350 first and second-line planes and an extensive "Maginot Line" of concrete fortifications and emplacements rooted in the Sudetens, President Benes believes he could hold off a German attack for three weeks. By falling back to a second defense line in the cross-country high Moravian plateau east of Prague, his general staff is convinced the nation could hang on for three months more...
Bereaved Marie of Jugoslavia stood as long as she could the sight of her son King Peter standing bareheaded in the rain, perhaps catching his death of cold. When she could stand it no longer Her Majesty motioned His Majesty to put on his cap, a handsome Sokol cap with a feather...