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General Štefanik

Of the triumvirate who headed the Czechoslovak revolution abroad for three years one has already departed. General Milan Rostislav Štefanik, vicepresident of the Czechoslovak National Council from 1915 to 1918, and minister of war of the Czechoslovak Republic since November, 1918, was killed in an aeroplane accident on May 4. In him the Czechoslovaks lost a brave soldier, a great patriot, a talented diplomat, as well as a most romantic character.

Štefanik was born 39 years ago in the small Slovak village of Košarisk in the county of Nitra. His father was Protestant minister and was able to give Milan thor-