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DISSENSION IS TREASON
OR many British spec- Crecy, and from whose helm the early folk-wanderings, but it is hereditary (title of King before tators of the still- Black Prince is sald (by a prob- fair, I think, to note that both Premsyl Ottaker I. (1197-1230) ably untrue legend) to have Czechs and Germans can claim succeeded in obtaining the king- ma which has been taking form the crest of a Prince of but newcomers.
firined by the Popo and by auc- place in Central Europe, the Wales. Even more have heard
Even before they had estab- ccssive Emperors.. issue has been shrouded not and sung) "Good King lished themselves in Moravin While the dignity of the Czech merely by propraganda, and: Wenceslas." But
have and Bohemia the Slay in their realm was being raised, increas by personal sympathies and realised that these two figures westward advance must have sing ties were being created hopes, but by a normal and were rulers of the people now overrun what is now Slovakia, with the Holy Roman Empire,
of
known as Czechs.
few
and by the end of the 9th con- and ari increasing German natural public Ignorance
AFTER VERSAILLES
tury a "Great Moravian” Empire minority entering the Bohemian concerning a country of
had been established which in- kingdom. They mainly kept to which the present name did
An almost equal vagueness in cluded the Western Slovaks. their own language and largely not appear on pre-war maps the popular mind envelopes the But this Empire was broken to their own settlements. The or occur in pre-war history position of the Sudeten Ger early in the 10th century by the Sudeten Germans had arrived
mans. It is possible still to books written in our own meet persons creditably well- of Slovakin in the 11th century which separates mediaevol racial Magyars, who gained possession or returned. Yet the distance language.
informed on foreign affairs who and continued to hold it, except jealousies from modern theories Had the Czechs and their believe that the German-speak for brief intervals, as part of of "blood-and-soil" are well illus- friends presented their country ing citizens whom the Fuehrer the Hungarian Kingdom till trated in the reign of the great to the outside world under its wishes to "return to the Reich
Charles of Bohemia, who as the old familiar name of Bohemia were pre-war citizens of Ger- (much as the people who call many lost (like the Alsatiana
In the second half of the 13th Emperor Charles IV. (1846-78) themselves the Hellenes are and Lorrainers and the in. century Slovakia, it is true, made Prague bis favourite capi- known to the outside world as habitants of the Polish Corridor) came for a time under the Czech tal. Greeks) it is at least possible in the great reshuffle of Vor- King of Bohemia; in the 14th HUSS'S MARTYRDOM
that it would be more generally sailles.
understood that the claims of
no Was
The Czecho-Slovakia
WAS
1018.
and again the 15th century there
of
was
were brief periods of Slovak in- The Promyslid House had died the country to independence Peace Treaties did, indeed, in-
of the dependence. But Czechs and out in 1806. The blind King Slovaks-originally the same John mentioned carlier was a were not something, as it were, clude a few square miles of what cople and preserving even, to member of the House of Luxem dropped out of n hat by the
formerly Prussia. This day almost the same innguage bourg, but married to a Premy- Peace Conference of 1919.
small section contined under 60,- have continued to belong to slid Princess. His son, Charles Most British schoolchlidren have heard of the blind King 000 inhabitants of whom 80 different countries and to be IV., spoké French, German and John of Bohemia, who fell at per cent. spoke (and speak) a governed on the whole under Bohemian with equal facility,
Moravian-Czech dialect,
The different systems, although from and insisted that his German remainder of Czecho-Slovakia 1490 until 1918 they shared the officials should speak the nation- It became a maxim under the members of the Chinese National was carved out of the old Austro- same foreign Sovereigns. The al language. The use of Czech Government is a greater blow to Hungarian Empire, where the Kingdom of Bohemia survived in or German was optional in the old Roman laws that Treason the cause of China than the loss Sudetens had been neighbours of reality until 1020 and in theory civic assemblies. Half a cen-. was next to sacrilege in gravity.of a city. Such utterances sow the Czechs in a common State, till 1918. There was no "King" tury before the German univer
the seeds of dissension, breed greater or smaller, for many dom of Slovakia."
sities had been organised he Throughout the centuries this dictum has held; in fact, Trea-sters attacking China from the
disunity. With these two mon- centuries.
founded the University THE GERMANS' RETURN Much of the early history of
Prague. con-Bohemia la stiil dim for lack of The earliest Czech rulers--to son may now be said to rank in, rear, she cannot hope to
Under his successor, Wences-. to tinue her gallant stand in front. records and excess of racial pro- return most countries as the gravest
Bohemin-did not las IV... serious reforms were offence that can be committed aster, but it
The loss of Canton is a dis-paganda legends. Czechs and have the rank of King. "Good called for in the Church. The
more Sudetens regard one another King Wenceslas," though he was leader of the reformers against the people.
disaster than was the loss of the with varying degrees of em- to have four namesakes with the John Huss, Rector of the Uni- It is still too early to state Marne to the Allles in 1914. The phasis as intruders, but impartial kingly title, was in fact merely versity of Prague (from which Allies regained the Marne, as historians recall that the earliest an independent Prince ruling the King's policy drove the bulk .Paul Robeson definitely that Treason and trai-China can, with continued unity, known inhabitants of the coun- over Bohemia. He appears to of the German students and pro-
tors were involved in the down-regain Canton. The Chinese
a pious fessors) and greatest of all A purifier rather B. 8780 The Wind has told me so... Barnabas von Geczy Orch, fall of Canton although, in view people must learn, as the Bri-try were actually Celts, known have been not merely
tish, French and Italian people to the Romans as Boil-whose monarch, subsequently canonised Czech heroes. of all the circumstances, there learned in the dark days of capital Tacitus names as by the Roman Church, but an en- than a Protestant, Huss is be Waltzing Matilda......Peter Dawson with Chorus seems no other explanation. 1914-17, that there is no dis- Botohaemum. Before the first lightened man, who forbade pub- lieved to have come into contact A.D. German tribes llc executions. He died in 929, with the writings of Wyclif Never in its centuries of history honour or finality in temporary century
defeat or retreat. Belgium, (notably the Marcomanni and murdered on his way to Masa by through Bohemian students who has the Kwangtung capital fal-Servia, and Rumania became the Quad!) had invaded and one of his brothers.
came to England in the retinue the territory of an invader in settled in Bohemia and the ad-. The Pope had accepted a of Anne of Bohemia, daughter Messrs. S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. len to an invading allen army 1914 and 1915: Russia capitu-joining province, Moravia; but Slavonic liturgy, introduced to of Charles IV. and wife of our with such ridiculous case, and Inted in 1917. Nearly all of they later pushed onward into Bohemia by Greek missionaries, own Richard I. Hussites began. the only logical conclusion that France was overrun and the what is now known as Bavaria, unwillingly, and when Prague to be persecuted as disciples of can be reached is that silver has Italians were meeting with dis- and were replaced, after an in- became a bishopric, he insisted Wyclif, and Ifuss himself, per-
aster after disaster at the hands terval of Lombard power, by a on the use of Latin. Thus suaded by- Sigismund of Hun-.... been used in the greatest be-of the greatest Army the world Slav influx.
Wenceslas and his successors, gary, brother of Wenceslas, to trayal the world has known for has known. But morals nineteen centuries.
mained firm, and the nations BOTH OF EARLY ORIGIN ruling over a still largely pagan travel under promise of a safe
people, welcomed educated conduct to Constance and. dem. which for three years fought a This process-the German priests from Germany. During fend his views before a General The story of this apparent losing war finally prevailed. This conquest and exodus seems to the 12th and 13th centuries, Council of the Church, was at- betrayal may not be told for is history which the Chinese have occupied the first five cen- moreover, they began to en- reated and burnt at the stako in
turies A.D. Bohemia by the sixth courage the Immigration of 1415. many weeks. In the meantime, people should take to heart,
During the Japanese advance, century appears to have been German traders and craftsmen. The first affect of Huss's. China's gateway and stronghold this newspaper received one or almost completely Slav, but even Already the Premyelids (as martyrdom was a virtualna- In the South has fallen, and a two letters from Chinese readers in the first century, or earlier so the Royal House was called) tional revolt against allegiance evidence in were acknowledging the au- to Rome. A series or religious new and equally deadly form of accusing us of pro-Japanism be- archaeological
cause we published reports dis- dicates, Bohemia had at least a thority of the Holy Roman Em- ware followed, which were Treason is making its appear-closing that the Japanese ad-scattering of Slav inhabitants. peror and marrying German really ended for 200 years. The anco-the Treason which is devance was much more rapid No sane person would build princesses. Two members of conflict was nationalist as well fined by the Oxford Dictionary than official Chinese sources political theories on the scanty the House had been granted by an doctrinal. George of Fode
would admit. We believed then, as falseness to the government and we continue to believe, that data to be derived from these the Emperors the personal (not brad, elected first as Regent, and of the country. It is this type the worse disservice China's
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of Treason for which the in-leaders can do their people is to GRIN AND BEAR IT vaders of China have prayed verses. The danger of this for sixteen months. It is the policy became apparent imme- Treason which has allowed pup-which could not be hushed up. diately with the loss of Canton, pet regimes to come into being So confident were the vast In Peiping and Nanking. It la majority of Chinese people that the Treason wherein a acction the Japanese were still some of the people betrays their coun- scores of miles from Canton, and try in its hour of need by ex-were encountering opposition of pressing dissatisfaction with, or such a nature that the fall of the city was not even a remote transferring allegiance from, the leaders of the National Gov. Possibility, that when disaster came on Friday the effect was ernment. The vilest Treason of catastrophic. Had vernacular this type insofar as China is and other European newspapers concerned is the transference published a true state of affairs, of allegiance from the National as did the Telegraph, we are Government to the leaders of confident that the loss of Canton the so-called governments who would have been accepted so philosphically that there would are manifestly puppets dangling not have been this subsequent at the enda of strings pulled by hunting for scapegoats which is the invaders. A milder, but so injurious to the cause of equally dangerous form of Trea-China. son, in any attempt to disredit the existing Government of our China.
We would be lacking in responsibilities to our readers and, wo bellovo, in our friendship for the Chinese. We would like to issue this people, were we to refrain from warning to the Chinese people: publishing accurate and immo- An utterance by any responsible diate reports of events in China, or semi-responsible Chinese per-merely on the grounds that it is son or newspaper which seeks better that the Chinese people to discredit
should not hear about impend- Generalissimo ing disasters until they have Chiang Kai-shok or the other occurred.
not
then as Bohemia's only Protes- tant King, was the only purely
By Lichty Czech monarch after the Premy-
"Don't you dare throw that has away—it's cost ma a fortune in
· check-rooms,”
slids.
After the reigns of Vladislav and Louis of Poland, to whom the Crown had passed, Bohemia fell in 1526 under four centuries of Hapsburg domination. The art-loving and eccentric Rudolph II., who made Prague again the capital of the Empire, issued the celebrated "Letter of Majesty” in 1609, which gave the Bohemian Protestant religion ccclesiastical and educational rights at least equal to those of the Catholic minority. Rudolph was, however, deposed, and the Crown passed in turn to his brother Matthew and his nep how, Ferdinand IL, who deter mined to reconquer Bohemia for the Roman Catholic faith. The Thirty Years' War, which de vastated so much of Europe, actually began with the célo- brated: Defenestration of Prague," when three of Fer dinand's Roman Catholic coun- cillors were thrown out of a' window of the enatio into the moat-an experience which they survived.
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