Word: benesh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eduard, save up your pence, For Adolf soon will be over the fence. So runs the insolent jingle which Nazi sympathizers among Czechoslovakia's German minority sporadically plaster on Czech frontier barriers. No one need explain to worried Czechs that Eduard is their president, Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh), that Adolf is their neighbor, Hitler, that the fence is a cup-shaped chain of mountains along the Czech-German border, a chain about the height of Vermont's Green Mountains. Since the Sixth Century this fence has served as a barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes...
...Morrisonism of the week London papers printed separately under sly little heads. Someone, they reported, mentioned to Mr. Morrison the name of Dr. Eduard Benes (pronounced Benesh). the man who is often called "Europe's Smartest States-man," a leading founder of the Republic of Czechoslovakia, who has put that State at the head of the Little Entente...
...Benesh?" said Texas' Morrison, candidly puzzled, "Who's Benesh...