CZECHOSLOVAKIA 



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Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams 



AN UNCROWNED PRINCESS OP PILSpN 



Pilsen has a claim to fame other than that of being the city that made beer famous. It 

 had the first printing-press in Bohemia. Beer, to the Pilsener, does not suggest ''Bohemian- 

 ism," but a staple industry, occupying an entire quarter of the city, with its cellars burrowing 

 underground for miles. 



war, refused to fight the battles of their 

 oppressors and deserted to the enemy by 

 companies, they established a precedent 

 for military sabotage which cannot but 

 deeply affect the whole question of im- 

 pe rial ism and subject nationalities 

 throughout the world. 



This voluntary surrender of the Czechs, 

 sanctioned and applauded as it has been 

 by the great powers, rang the death knell 

 for militarism of the Prussian type, 



wherever it is found, just as the volun- 

 tary support afforded by England's colo- 

 nies revealed a loyalty which is now 

 bringing its reward in new measures of 

 self-government to hitherto subject 

 classes. 



CZECHOSLOVAKIA IS A RELIEF MAP OF 

 ROMANCE 



Czechoslovakia is a vast relief map of 

 romance, a treasure-house of art, and a 



