A rainbow， of time and of space: Orphans of the Titanic
A rainbow， of time and of space: Orphans of the Titanic
ISBN: 9780894040627
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Chapter
One
FOR AN ENTERPRISING YOUNG MAN with ambition to
~ better his lot??? prospects were not good in the dying years
of the Austro-Hungarian empire. A society which was marked
by great inequity in the ownership of wealth and by a rigid
system of caste had little to offer to a person who sought mate-
rial and social advancement. One was condemned??? it must
have seemed??? to the circumstances which prevailed at the time
of one s birth.
To the perceptive mind of Michel Navratil??? these truths
became apparent at an early age. He had been born in ~88o
in the little town of Szered??? about 4~ miles east of the city now
known as Bratislava??? in what became Czechoslovakia after the
dissolution of the Empire. His parents were of sturdy Slovak
stock and saw to it that he was educated for the niche in life
they expected him to fill. He was trained in the trade of a tailor
and quickly became self-supporting; but he soon began to
chafe under the limitations he foresaw. In the year ~9o2??? stal-
wart and strong in the prime of his youth??? the lure of a better
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