CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Papp's Potatoes

Each little country of Eastern Europe hates & fears the next. Last week Bishop Papp of Miskolcz in Hungary obtained a carload of potatoes, consigned them to starving persons of his faith in Ruthenia, which is part of Czechoslovakia, sat back and waited for Ruthenian thanks, which failed to arrive.

Instead Bishop Papp received irate notice that his potatoes are barred from Czechoslovakia by the Czechoslovak Government, which will not permit its starving Ruthenians to accept them even as a gift. That Ruthenians are starving their Deputies in the Czechoslovak Chamber have...

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