Word: bohemias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides threatening Sylt and Helgoland to make Germany's warbirds stay home, Britain also sent night patrols far into Germany last week, over Austria, Bohemia and northeast Germany, dropping pamphlets. This was the second major operation after a shake-up in the Royal Air Force in France. Until the resignation of War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's Air Force in France was divided into: 1) Army Cooperation units under Vice Marshal C. H. B. Blount, who took orders from the Army's General the Viscount Gort; 2) Advanced Striking Force under Vice Marshal Patrick Playfair...
...Allied general has had a chance. Socially the new War Secretary is somewhat overshadowed by his clever and beauteous wife. Lady Maureen Stanley, daughter of the Marquess of Londonderry who used to be perhaps the chief British exponent of appeasing Germany but swung violently around after the rape of Bohemia last spring...
First committee business was to pronounce "null & void" the agreement signed last March by Czech President Emil Hacha. which made Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate. The Committee can now conscript Czechs and Slovaks living in France and Great Britain into a Czechoslovak Legion headed by 45-year-old General Sergej Ingr, named Commander in Chief. Meanwhile, one of the Committee's problems will be to dissuade Czechs under German rule from futile revolts. Onetime Minister to the Court of St. James's Jan Masaryk warned his countrymen over the BBC that the present was not a propitious...