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...last week word of the plot reached the central CzechoSlovak Government in Prague. At six next morning the Slovak capital, Bratislava, awoke to find CzechoSlovak gendarmes patrolling the city. The Hlinka Guards were disarmed and interned. From Prague President Dr. Emil Hacha fired Slovakia's Cabinet. Its Premier, Monsignor Dr. Joseph Tiso, was shut up in a Jesuit monastery. Eventually Dr. Karol Sidor, a nationalist and Hlinka Guardsman but not a separatist, was made Premier. Apparently the plot was crushed. But just then ousted Premier Tiso smuggled a telegram out of the monastery...
Before 35,000 cheering Germans and Slovaks at Bratislava, German Minority Leader Franz Karmasin shouted: "Germans of Slovakia will fight shoulder to shoulder with the young Slovak people...
...From Bratislava: "I have seldom heard so much truth about the fate of the Jews as in your broadcast ... we never hear such manly words about humanity here...
...going to quibble about a village!" was one of Adolf Hitler's cracks. Doodles by Benito Mussolini at the Conference consisted of scratching short parallel lines, making large capital letters at random. Premier Daladier said afterward that he had dissuaded the Führer from certain demands touching Bratislava. Added the Frenchman: "If there had been any question threatening the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia, I would have resolutely refused to consider negotiating further." Herr Hitler said later that M. Daladier is "Ein ganzer Kerl," which Nazi aides translated as "a real...
Czech authorities fed and clothed the 51, kept them sheltered in Bratislava for two days. But the Czechs feared that further charity to Jews would encourage Austrian Nazis to drive Jews in thousands over into Czechoslovakia. Therefore, the Czechs piled the Jews into trucks at night, dumped them over into Hungary...