Word: bohemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Daladier opened for the affirmative in a radio speech from Paris. Rarely since the war started has M. Daladier publicly opened his mouth without viewing with alarm the Nazi dream of "world domination," and this was no exception. "Austria, Bohemia. Slovakia and Poland," he said, "are only lands of despair . . . subdued by treachery or brutal violence...
...young Poles, many of them former soldiers in the Polish Army, have been conscripted for labor in the Reich. Jews have been forced to wear identifying clothing (generally yellow arm bands), are largely confined to ghettos. Thousands of Jews, not only from former Polish provinces but also from Bohemia, Germany, Austria, have been dumped unceremoniously, with little food, clothing or money, into a small, not yet defined enclave around Lublin, southeast of Warsaw. Famine, disease and epidemic threatens the territory...
...Office official to him.† Answered Mr. Villard: "I have a far higher opinion of the German people than your government has. ... I am willing to believe that they can be trusted with the truth, and your government is not." When Dr. Karl Hermann Frank, Secretary of State in Bohemia-Moravia, told him that every German was behind Führer Adolf Hitler, Mr. Villard promptly disagreed, said he had met many anti-Nazi Germans...