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This was important because Teschen flanks the Moravian Gate, the No. 1 pass into the natural fortress of Bohemia. Bismarck had laid it down as a political maxim that "whoever controls Bohemia controls Europe. " It was almost as axiomatic that whatever strong power controlled Silesia controlled Prussia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: From Failure to Victory | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...their familiar pattern, they will firmly secure the Pomeranian and Silesian flanks before they move on Berlin. If Berlin is lost before the western Allies move, the Nazis will still hold the Ruhr. When that is gone, they will still have the industries of central and southern Germany, Austria, Bohemia to nourish a diminished, compact and desperate Wehrmacht for a while longer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY: The Pendulum Swings | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...home and sets up shop in the garage. Before long Miss Dunne's infatuated stepdaughter is pinning her hair up, whereas Miss Dunne is letting hers down and, in general, acting, as the child describes it, "kinda leapy." But the leapier she gets, under the disturbing influence of Bohemia, the more nervously she yammers about her duty to the community, which does not approve of people like Mr. Boyer. Before the plot uncomplicates itself, the sculptor is engaged to her stepdaughter and she herself has received startling proposals from a high-school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 11, 1944 | 12/11/1944 | See Source »

...Slovaks has long given the impression that they are all devoutly Catholic, anti-German, anti-Czech, antiCommunist, preeminently pro-Slovak. Their hilly land (14,484 sq. mi.) had been a part of Hungary for 1,011 years when, in 1918, the Versailles peacemakers joined Slovakia to Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and created Czechoslovakia. (Ruthenia, which the Russians entered last week, became a part of Czechoslovakia in 1919, was seized by Hungary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pride and a Priest | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Astute Dr. Benes recently trimmed his sails to the Slovak wind, watered down his previous insistence upon a centralized Czechoslovak government. Said he: "I, myself, believe that the decentralization of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia-to the degree that is especially necessary in Slovakia-is a matter of course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pride and a Priest | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

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