ARS ACCLASS PR
Entrance Hall
Czechoslovak Participation
New York World's Fair 1939
FOR THREE HUNDRED YEARS THE CZECHS AND SLOVAXS
STRUGGLED FOR THE RIGHT TO LIVE AS A FREE PEOPLE
IN 1918 THEY FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN REGAINING THEIR
INDEPENDENCE FROM THE RUINS OF THE PAST THEY
STARTED TO REBUILD THEIR COUNTRY AND FOUNDED THEIR
CONSTITUTION ON THE SAME PRINCIPLES AND IN THE SAME
SPIRIT IN PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS WHICH HAD INSPIRED THE
FOUNDERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IN THE
TWENTY YEARS THAT FOLLOWED CZECHOSLOVAKIA ATTAINED
A HIGH DEGREE OF MATERIAL AND SPIRITUAL PROSPERITY
AND SHE WAS RIGHTLY REGARDED AS ONE OF THE BEST
GOVERNED NATIONS IN EUROPE
IT HAD BEEN ORIGINALLY PLANNED THAT THIS PAVILION WAS
TO BE A MONUMENT OF THAT PROGRESS AND WAS TO PROVE
WHAT MAY BE ACHIEVED WITHIN TWO DECADES IF INDUSTRY
LABOR ART AND CREATIVE PATRIOTISM WORK IN HARMONY
BY AN UNFRIENDLY STROKE OF FATE THE YOUNG REPUBLIC
BECAME THE VICTIM OF A RUTHLESS INVASION WHICH
STRANGLED THE LIBERTY OF HER PEOPLE MORE ELOQUENTLY
TEAN WORDS COULD EXPRESS IT THE EMPTINESS THAT
DS YOU TELLS THE STORY BUT THE FREEDOM OF
THE SPIRIT OF A PEOPLE CANNOT BE EXTINGUISHED
THIS UNFINISHED PAVILION REPRESENTS A SYMBOL OF
YMBOL OF THE MOTTO OF THE REPUBLIC
THAT
WILL ULTIMATELY TRUMPS AND THAT IN A FREE
BEROPE THE CZECHS AND SLOVAES WILL AGAIN BREATHE
TOFFE
