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Hearstpapers handled the Wiegand piece with care, and played its headlines way down. Unspectacular also - but devastating - was the press conference comment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "That brings recollections." - e.g., unwanted Austria, disclaimed Sudetenland, renounced Bohemia, Moravia, useless Memel, undesired Poland...
Smetana: Quartet No. I ("From My Life") (Curtis String Quartet; Columbia: 7 sides) and Dvořák: Sextet in A Major (Budapest String Quartet, with John Moore, second cello, and Watson Forbes, second viola; Victor: 8 sides). Polka-dotted nostalgia by old Bohemia's greatest composers; the Dvořák for the first time on records...
...Nazi Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler announced that in March 1939 he proposed to land in Reykjavik with a large delegation of Germans who would conduct genealogical research all over the kingdom to establish the "Viking ancestry" of prominent Nazis. It was just luck for Iceland that Adolf Hitler took Bohemia-Moravia instead, and Genealogist Himmler canceled his Reykjavik appointment to rush to Prague...
...first anniversary of subjugation by Germany, Adolf Hitler and Emil Hacha, president of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia, exchanged telegrams. The dictator wired: "It is no intention of Germany to put a burden on the Czech people that might threaten their national existence. ..." The puppet president wired that Bohemia hoped for the victory of Germany's "glorious armed forces...
...relaxed his sullen Habsburg mouth into a smile, asked: "Have you ever considered how industrious ants are?" Industrious but not quite as systematic as an ant, Otto has worked out a plan of restoration. The present war, he says, will end with revolution in Austria, which will spread to Bohemia-Moravia, Slovakia, Poland, the rest of Greater Germany. Then he will form a Danubian Federation-a democratic super-monarchy patterned after Great Britain, embracing Austria, Hungary, Bohemia-Moravia, Poland, Rumania (blithely overlooking well-intrenched Carol II) and Yugoslavia (overlooking the Habsburg-hating Serbs, who touched off World...