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...broadcast a claim to the Czechoslovak province of Carpatho-Ukraine (also known as Ruthenia), the only part of Czechoslovakia yet liberated by the Red Army. The Teschen area (500 sq. miles), rich in coal and heavily industrialized, had been tossed by Adolf Hitler as a sop to Poland after Munich. Backward, mountainous Ruthenia (4,886 sq. miles) had never formed part of the Ukraine...
...return for shifting Czechoslovakia firmly into the Russian orbit, Dr. Benes had extracted a Soviet promise to respect the Republic's pre-Munich frontiers. But last week Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was reported to have sent a disturbing note to the Czech Government in London: the Soviet would respect its promise, but Ruthenia showed a strong tendency to join the Soviet Ukraine. Said the Kiev radio: most of Ruthenia's 800,000 citizens speak a Ukrainian dialect, have voted in a plebiscite (organized by the Ruthenian Communist Party) for incorporation in the Ukraine. Already Peoples' Committees...
...newald Altar Screen was important enough to be mentioned in the Versailles Treaty: the Germans tried to keep it in Munich after the war, but the peacemakers of 1919 ordered its return to Alsace. Between wars, it was kept in the Colmar Museum. Last week, when the bare facts of Captain Ross's discovery first became known, nobody knew or even tried to guess why the Nazis left such a treasure behind when they were being pushed out of Alsace...
...Josef Scharl, Munich-born refugee artist of top-rank Continental reputation -for a roomful of boldly painted portraits and landscapes...
...Author. Dr. Samuel Shellabarger, 56, was born in Washington, D.C., educated at Munich and Harvard. He is now headmaster of the Columbus (Ohio) School for Girls. For 20 years, under his own and two pen names (John Esteven, Peter Loring), he has been writing mysteries, romances, biographies. Captain from Castile is his first big success. Chosen by the Literary Guild for January, it has also been snapped up by 20th Century...