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Hail to Czechoslovakia! A wonderful country and a wonderful people—a splendid and a climbing republic, with nearly fourteen million people who are working, producing, saving, living, and loving. Forced into the great war, but hungering for freedom and the right to govern themselves, they were able to break away even before the signing of the armistice, and form their own free and independent government. Beloved Bohemia, one of the ancient cradles of liberty, is a part of this newer country. Hail to you! Our hearts, our sympathies are with you; we’re proud of you. Don’t think, just because the selfish special interest gang is temporarily in control in this government that the great mass of us can be swayed against you one iota by the propaganda of all the Tories in old England who naturally sympathize with the aristocrats of Hungary, and who want the blood-thirsty Magyars to grab part of your territory.

We have received an interesting letter from the Rt. Rev. Dr. D. Hanus, chancellor in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in which he praises the Student Life Magazine, every copy of which, he says, makes him feel again the springtime of his life. He has also sent us copies of his book, called “The Eucharistic Congress in Chicago”, written by himself and Senator Myslivec, both of whom attended the Congress in Chicago in 1926. We have found the book, which contains 126 pages with numerous illustrations, highly interesting because, among other things, it gives the authors’ experiences and impressions of our Catholic Czech life, of our parishes, and our organizations. One of the chapters deals with the visit of the Czechoslovak delegates to the Lisle Institutions. Dr. Hanus informs us that the price of the book is 5 Crowns, or in American money 20c—25c by mail. Copies can be ordered from the Bohemian Benedictine Press, 1641 Allport Str., Chicago, or the American Alliance of Catholic Czechs, 3207 W. 22nd Str., Chicago, Ill., or from us.

Slovak Days have been very successful in Pennsylvania this summer. Twenty thousand Slovaks from Luzerne and Lackawanna Counties celebrated their Fifth Slovak Day on the Fourth of July in Sans Souci Park near Nanticoke, while 40,000 to 50,000 Slovaks gathered in one of the Pittsburg parks on July seventh. Jaro, the English supplement of a Slovak paper, says of these undertakings: “Continued success of these Slovak Days will completely remove some of the flimsy excuses of our younger folk who fear to proclaim their Slovak origin on the ground that the American public does not know what a Slovak is.”