KROMERIZ LECTURES - PROBLEM OF A SMALL NATION
Subtitle: PROBLEM MALEHO NARODA -TRANSLATED FROM THE CZECH with NOTES AND COMMENTARY by STACEY B. DAY
By: TRIGON
Contributors: Cover Design by Karel Horak
Publisher: Nakladatelstvi TRIGON
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Umelecka 2, PRAHA 7, Czech Republic
Format: Hardbound
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9788086159997
Subjects: Czech Republic; Tomas Garrigue Masaryk; Establishment of Czech Republic; Austro-Hungarian Empire
Genres: Political History; Czech History; European Post World War II Nations
Work titles: Printed in the Czech Republic by Silurus
First sentence: From Foreword.  I came across Thomas Masaryks's PROBLEM MALEHO NARODA in 1972. I had traveled to Prague to participate in an International Conference on Burns, and was staying in Hradcany, in the home of Frantisek Podval, who was to become my father-in-law. The sad, tired, almost inert atmosphere of Prague, coupled with an extraordinary caution virtually bespeaking fear, pervaded the whole city, as far as I could tell, and was an experience that I had never encountered before.
Description: A group of bibliophiles found two lectures of T. G. Maseryk, (Founder of the Czech Republic), dated 1905, in TYRS, a monthly publication, in Kromeriz, Moravia. The lectures were delivered on April 15th and 16th of that year, in Kromeriz, as part of a University Extension Course on the PROBLEM OF A SMALL NATION. The Kromeriz bibliophiles  and their friends privately published this significant find in a NOT-FOR- SALE-EDITION on the occasion of the IX CONGRESS of MORAVIAN BIBLIOPHILES and EXLIBRISTS in Valasske Mezerici, on May 16th, 1937. This revered print on the same occasion celebrated the 87th birthday of President the Liberator, Masaryk. (Vasil K.Skrach. In Prague, June Ist, 1937). This text is here translated into the English language, with NOTES AND COMMENTARY by Professor Stacey B. Day, and published in Prague by Nakladatelstvi Trigon.
Notes: Published in a Limited Edition. In Memory of Frantisek Podval.  The author (Translator with Commentary)  was born in London, England, in 1927. A medical doctor, he trained in surgery in the Department of Professor Owen H. Wangensteen at the University of Minnesota, then went on to become Professor and Member, Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research in New York, and later a W.H.O. Professor of International Health. His writings include works in biology and medicine as well as in literature and academic scholarly researches.