Contributors to this Work* ABSOLON, KAREL B., was born in 1926 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He attended Masaryk University Medical School (1945-48), Yale University Medical School (M.D., 1952), and University of Minnesota (M.S. in Physiology and Ph.D. in Surgery, 1963). During his studies he was awarded a number of fellowships, in- cluding the James Hudson Brown Fellowship in Pathology (1950), American Can- cer Society Fellowship (1954-56), U.S. Public Health Service Traineeship (1958-61) and Research Fellowship (1961-63). Dr. Absolon, who is certified by the Ameri- can Board of Surgery and American Board of Thoracic Surgery, was Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Minnesota (1963-66), and since 1966 has been a practicing physician in Texas, also associated with the Department of Surgery, St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo. He is a member of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine, New York Academy of Sciences, History of Medicine Society, etc. He has published more than 50 studies on surgical sub- jects concerning cardiovascular surgery, transplantation and history of medicine. Address: 2714 W 10th Street, Amarillo, Texas, 79106. ANDERLE, JOSEF, was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1924. He studied at the Charles University of Prague, the University of Munich (1952-53), and the Uni- versity of Chicago, where he received his Ph.D. in history in 1961. He was Research Assistant in the Center for American Foreign and Military Policy at the University of Chicago (1956-59) and Bibliographer for Social Sciences and Slavic Studies in the University of Chicago Library (1960-62) prior to his coming to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1962, where he is now Associate Professor of Russian and East European History. He is co-author of Latvia: An Area Study (New Haven, 1956), and he contributed chapters and articles to sev- eral other books and journals. He is presently working on a book on the Czech- Slovak relations. Present address: 309 Glenwood Drive, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27514. ANDIC, VOJTECH ERVIN, was born in 1910 in the Slovak town of Dobra Niva, Czechoslovakia. He graduated from Teacher's College at Banska Stiavnica (1930), School of Commerce, Prague University (Commercial Engineering Degree, 1934), Graduate School of Economics, Columbia University (M.A., 1950) and New York University (Ph.D., 1954). He has taught economics at Milton College (1954), Willamette University (1954-1957), University of Pittsburgh (1957-1963), Union University, Albany (since 1963) and the New School for Social Research, New * More detailed biographies of many of these authors may be found in The Czechoslovak Contribution to World Culture. Ed. by Miloslav Rechcigl, Jr. (The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1964). Contributors to this Work 1803 York City (since 1963), and lectured in seminars on Eastern Europe at University of Pittsburgh, State University of Wisconsin, New York University, etc. Since September 1966 Dr. Andic has been Secretary General of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences in America. Address: 180 South Main Avenue, Albany, N.Y., 12208. BASCH, ANTONIN, was born in 1896 in Nemecky Brod, Czechoslovakia. He at- tended Charles University, Prague (JUDr., 1919), and the University of Vienna (1917-18) and University of Berlin (1920-21). He was successively an official in the Czechoslovak Ministry of Commerce (1919), with the Czechoslovak Economic Service, Berlin (1920-23), Secretary of the Czechoslovak Chamber of Commerce, Prague (1923-26), Manager of the Czechoslovak National Bank (1926-34), Man- aging Director of the United Chemical and Metallurgical Works, Prague (1934- 39), and also Lecturer in economics at Charles University (1923-39). After coming to the U.S. he was Visiting Professor of Economics at Brown University (1940- 42). Lecturer at Columbia University (1942-46), Chief Economist at the World Bank (1946-61), Visiting Professor of Economics at Michigan University (1961- 65), and most recently Senior Adviser to the U.N. Center for International Devel- opment (1966- ) and Consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (1966- ). Dr. Basch is the author of a number of books, including Theory of Inflation (1923), New Economic Warfare (1941), Danube Basin and the German Economic Sphere (1943), Price for Peace: The New Europe of World Markets (1945), The Future of Foreign Lending for Development (1962), Financing Eco- nomic Development (1964), Capital Markets of the European Economic Com- munity (1965), etc. Address: 4545 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20008. BECK, CURT F., was born in 1924 in Berlin, Germany of Czechoslovak parents. After attending the French gymnasium in Prague he emigrated to the U.S. in 1938. He received a B.A. from Cornell University (1943), M.A. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1944) and Ph.D. from Harvard (1950). His doctoral thesis concerned the Political Theory of Edvard Benes. He has taught at the University of Connecticut since 1947, where he rose from an Instructor in Government and International Relations to his present position of Professor of Political Science. His publications deal with Czechoslovak domestic and inter- national politics. Address: Dunham Pond Road, Storrs, Connecticut, 06268. BLAHO, PAVEL, was born in 1903 in Skalica, Czechoslovakia. After acquiring an engineering degree in agriculture, he devoted his energy to farming. In 1944 he was named Commissioner for Railways and Transportation, Banska Bystrica. In the same year became a member of the Slovak Revolutionary Council in Banska Bystrica, and in 1945-1946 a member of the Provisional Parliament of Czecho- slovakia. In 1946 he founded the Freedom Party, of which he became a Deputy Chairman, and in 1947-1948 held the post of Commissioner of Posts and Com- munications. He now lives in the United States, writing papers and research publications for Free Europe Committee on agricultural problems. Holds member- ship in a number of Czechoslovak emigre and exile organizations and since 1949 has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Council of Free Czechoslovakia. Was decorated with a War Cross (Czechoslovakia) and a Free- dom Medal (Czechoslovakia), both in 1947. Address: 39-15 Dorothy Place, Long Island City, New York, 11102. 1804 Contributors to this Work BORSODY, STEPHEN, was born in Presov, Czechoslovakia, in 1911. Educated at Charles University in Prague, he received a doctor's degree in law and political science in 1934. He studied history at the University of Budapest, where he obtained a docent's degree in East European history in 1946. He also studied in Dresden, Rome, Besançon, Paris, and London. In 1937, Dr. Borsody became a journalist. He worked in Prague for the Hungarian opposition newspaper, Prâgai Magyar Hirlap. In 1938 he moved to Budapest. From 1939 to 1944, he was associated with Magyarorszâg, a paper supporting the policies of Premier Teleki. In 1945, Dr. Borsody was Foreign Editor of Szabad Szó, the Peasant Party daily, also Associate Editor of Oj Magyarorszâg, a weekly specializing in international news. He joined the Hungarian foreign service and was appointed Counselor and Press Attaché of the Hungarian Legation in Washington (1946- 1947). Following his resignation from his diplomatic post in 1947, Dr. Borsody entered the Academic Profession and became an American citizen. He is Pro- fessor of History at Chatham College (1947- ), the author of The Triumph of Tyranny (London and New York, 1960) and of several books in Hungarian. He contributed the chapter on Hungary in The Development of Historiography (Harrisburg, 1954) and wrote a large number of articles and book reviews for American as well as Hungarian periodicals. Address: Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15232. BRADBROOK, BOHUSLAVA RÛZENA, was bom in 1922 in ValaSské Mezifiii, Czecho- slovakia. She studied Czech and English at the Charles University, Prague (Ph.D. 1952), English at Innsbruck and Comparative Literature at Oxford (first holder of the Rawnsley Studentship, D.Phil. 1958). Mrs. Bradbrook did research, among other subjects, on Karel Capek and published several articles (in The Slavonic and East European Review and elsewhere), delivered a number of public lectures and is preparing a full-length study on Capek. Since 1965 she has been Part-Time Lecturer in English language and literature at St. Mary's College, Bangor, North Wales. Address: Greenhill, Pendinas, Bangor, Caerns., Great Britain. BRADLEY, JOHN F. N., was born in 1930 in Brno, Czechoslovakia. He went to school in Czechoslovakia, Germany and Great Britain. Graduated from Cam- bridge University in 1955 where he also wrote a thesis on Czech nationalism. Did research in Paris which gained him a doctorate de l'Université de Paris. He was in charge of modern languages at Salford University and then appointed Lecturer in International Politics at Manchester University. At present he is Senior Lecturer in charge of East European studies. In addition to numerous articles, Dr. Bradley is the author of La Legion Tchécoslovaque en Russie 1914- 1920 (Paris, 1964), The Allied Intervention in Russia 1917-1920 (London, 1965), and The Russian Civil War 1917-1920 (Manchester, 1967). Address: Dept. of Government, University of Manchester, Dover Street, Manchester 13, Great Britain. BRUGEL, JOHN WOLFGANG, was born at Hustopec, Czechoslovakia in 1905. He received his Doctor of Laws degree from the German University of Prague in 1928. From 1930 to 1938 he served as Secretary to Dr. Ludwig Czech, the representative of the German Social Democrats in the Czechoslovak Government. He spent the war years in France and Britain. He has been working in London since 1947 as translator and correspondent for Continental newspapers and periodicals, writing about a variety of subjects. He is the author of many con- Contributors to this Work 1805 tributions on contemporary history, including a documented description of the seizure of Carpathian Russia by the Soviet Union and an analysis of the diplomatic history of the transfer of Czechoslovakia's Germans.