ABSTRACT
History has the virtue of softening the pain, and bringing the benefit to light. Grandeur in a people as well as in a man is a compound of struggle and rest, tension and release. The pilgrimage of the Czechoslovak people through history has gone on in a land which touches on no seashore, nor has it ever been far from the tumult and the clash of arms. The Czechoslovak history, with which the western world is fairly well acquainted, is a very short period. It was a time of world-wide disturbance and dislocation, and a small country had no real opportunity to follow its own course independent of the rest of the world. The Czechoslovak question, again brought so vividly to our attention by the events from 1938 to 1948, makes it necessary to explain a few of the most important subjects which are the object of continual interest and discussion.
