CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Great Debate

Subject: Resolved that a nation has a right to preparedness, a duty to defend itself against attack.

Debaters: Affirmative: "The Father of Czechoslovakia," President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, has just triumphantly celebrated his 80th birthday at Prague.

Negative: The late, great Count Leo Tolstoy, novelist and seer.

To a rapt audience of Czechoslovak Legionnaires last week, towering snowy-haired President Masaryk told the story of the great debate, used it to point the moral of Czechoslovak preparedness:

"Years ago I debated this problem with Count Tolstoy," he began. "I maintained to Tolstoy that one must be...

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