Letter: Letter

Published 15 August 1998

From Bevis Peters

When Czechoslovakia broke up into Slovakia and the Czech Republic, my aunt
noted that some people could be “Slovakian”. But were the others “Czech
Republican”?

London

Issue no. 2147 published 15 August 1998

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