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WHEN the Czech nation lost its independence in 1620 its cultural life ceased. Yet Comenius and other teachers continued their educational work in exile. To-day, the nation is again under foreign domination, its universities and scientific institutions are closed and its cultural publications no longer appear in the country itself. One has, however, resumed publication in London. From 1923 until the end of 1938, there appeared in Prague the Central European Observer, a review in English dealing with science, art, literature and industry and with European affairs generally. In common with other Czech cultural reviews, it suspended publication after the virtual loss of independence in 1938. It is now appearing again as a fortnightly journal "to study, as it had done in Prague, the problems of the Danubian basin with special attention to the peaceful collaboration of peoples inhabiting it, in the new Europe which must arise from the present cataclysm".
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Central European Observer. Nature 145, 258–259 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145258d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145258d0