WORLD : Prague Honors Woodrow Wilson
A day before George Bush becomes the first U.S. President to visit Czechoslovakia, Prague today renamed its main railway station to honor President Woodrow Wilson, who helped create the country.
At a ceremony performed by Mayor Jaroslav Koran and U.S. Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, the station reverted to its original and popular name--Woodrow Wilson Station--dropped 42 years ago under Communist rule.
Wilson, as President in 1918, helped founding father Tomas Masaryk draw up a constitution creating Czechoslovakia from the ruins of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
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