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Show Headliners COL. VLADEYIAR S. HURBAN Though a Slovak, and although Hitler has made Slovaks independent inde-pendent of Czechs, Col. Hurban has so much dislike for Germany and Hungary, and so much pride in ' t rZ the late Czecho Slovak nation, f J that he refused to i; " a surrender the;, Czech legation in , J" Washington to the ' ' , German ambas s sador. Born in ' the Carpathian ' i f mountains, h e knew Magyar op- Col. Vladimar pression as a S. Hurban child. Becoming a soldier, he went to Russia 30 years ago to accept a professorship professor-ship in the czar's war college. When the World war broke out he and 70,000 other Czechs joined the Russian army. During the revolution these Czechs made their historic movement to Vladivostok, Vladi-vostok, where the group collected funds to send Hurban to Washington. Washing-ton. There he joined Dr. Thomas Masaryk in founding the Czech nation. After the government was established ha returned to Washington as Czech military attache, at-tache, later going to Egypt as charge d'affaires, to Sweden as minister, and in 1936 back to Washington as minister. His greatest accomplishment here was consummation of the Czech-U. Czech-U. S. trade treaty last year, now abrogated under Hitler's "protec-nrate" "protec-nrate" regime. |