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Year later the Allied peacemakers, in the Treaty of St. Germain, set the boundaries for the new nation. To give Czecho-Slovakia a natural barrier which would serve to halt a German push to the east, the Allies, pressed by France and England, forwent strict interpretation of the principle of self-determination and recognized the Czech claim to the Sudeten region, largely populated by Germans. Also included within the frontiers was a small Polish minority in Silesia, a larger Hungarian minority in south Slovakia and the inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia, formerly under Hungarian rule, who requested union with...
...Imperial Airways, he will get $50,000. To Imperial, organization under Sir John Reith may well mean the installation top-to-bottom of the rigid quarter-deck punctilio he commanded at B.B.C. As if in anticipation of Sir John's coming, the company last week had in strict training a corps of "flight clerks" for the jobs stewardesses do on U. S. airlines. In trim-cut uniforms they must work 18 hours a day for $25-$30 a week, employ impeccable manners at all times...
...interviews are held in strict confidence, and are by appointment only. May we hear from...
Five of the six Tech students arrested in the Memorial Day riot at their plant have been placed on strict probationary, ejected from the Tech dormitories, and deprived of the privileges of scholarships and loans, it was revealed yesterday...
...celebrated their first wedding anniversary quietly at a Riviera hotel, near the Chateau de la Croe, which they have leased for three years and in which they are now making extensive alterations. The Duke gave the Duchess a bouquet of three orchids- all that could be found in a strict search of the neighborhood. Then they went on a picnic...