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Gymnastics is the baseball of transplanted Czecho-Slovakian, Swiss and German Americans. Largest of these groups is the 100,000 U.S. Bohemians who be long to the worldwide Sokol organization (1,000,000 members), started in 1862 by Dr. Miroslav Tyrs of Prague. Next largest group is the American Turners, a confederation of German-descended Turner Societies...
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...