CZECHOSLOVAKIA 



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Photograph by Dr. V. Sixta and Son 



WOMEN 01? TRENTSCHIN (TRENCIN), CZECHOSLOVAKIA 



As one ascends the Valley of the Vag from its confluence with the Danube above Buda- 

 pest, the Magyars disappear and Slovaks become more numerous. These are types of the 

 women one sees in the High Tatra mountain region. 



But, if my observations are correct, 

 the present dangers in central Europe 

 are more economic than political, and the 

 war-weary people would gladly do the 

 lion-and-lamb act together, were it not 

 for the fact that the lambs are so hungry 

 that they are not quite sure but that 

 they would relish a little tender lion meat, 

 and vice versa. 



The boundary that sticks up like a sore 

 thumb to the casual traveler is even more 

 irksome to the peoples concerned. I 



count myself a friend of the Czechs, but 

 if I had had to spend many more hours 

 getting permission to take my American 

 films out of their country, I would have 

 felt like declaring war on them myself. 

 Yet my films are no more necessary to 

 me than Czech coal is to Austria. After 

 one has been accustomed to use an open 

 road for many years, he hates to find 

 that somebody, be he friend or foe, has 

 closed it. 



When the Czech soldiers, early in the 



