The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Miscellaneous (6)

Five Czech coal miners in Most, Bohemia, were each sentenced to 18 months at hard labor for refusing to go down the shaft on May 22nd.

 

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Unusually late frosts damaged most seriously this year’s crops in Bohemia. The Prague papers state that frosts came as late as the first days of June. In Germany which lies north of Bohemia the damage was even more severe.

 

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Among the resolutins adopted by the annual convention of the American Federation of Labor at St. Paul was one declaring unconditionally for Czechoslovak independence. The resolution was introduced at the request of Typographical Union No. 330, composed of Bohemian typesetters.

 

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German newspapers published a fairly accurate report of the triumphant reception of Professor Masaryk in Chicago. According to them he was welcomed by 250,000 of his countrymen. This report was copied by the Bohemian papers, and while no comment was possible owing to the censorship, one can easily imagine the feelings of elation and the eager gossip with which the report of Masaryk’s royal welcome must have been received in the streets and coffeehouses of Prague.

 

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There is no such thing, there has never been any such thing as Austrian culture. What there was, and still remains of culture properly so-called in Austria, is not Austrian, but Latin or Slavonic, and therefore friendly, and certain to make common cause with us as soon as it has been freed from the grip of the dynastic constabulary of the Hapsburgs.

—M. A . Gerothwohl in the Fortnightly Review.