Word: cede
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plan was to cede about 8,000 square miles to Germany, and at most the Demands would bring in another 1,000 square miles. However, according to official London sources this week, the Plan was to have been carried out over a period of "about six months." The Demands insisted that by October 1-precisely eight days after the last meeting at Godesberg -all Czechoslovak armed forces, gendarmerie, police, customs officials and frontier guards be withdrawn from the areas which Dictator Hitler red-inked. While neither German nor Czechoslovak armed forces would be permitted in plebiscite areas while the voting...
...Czechoslovak Government, after studying the Godesberg Demands, rejected them to the extent of saying it would refuse to cede the Sudetenland under Hitler's new terms, but not to the extent of refusing further negotiation. It did not take back the Czechoslovak acceptance of the Berchtesgaden Plan. According to the Polish and Hungarian Governments, the Czechoslovak Government informed them this week that it was also ready to negotiate their claims to parts of Czechoslovakia...
...cede the area to Germany or to allow it to fall into Germany's hands would be virtual suicide for Czechoslovakia. At one point the Sudeten area reaches to within 20 miles of the nation's capital. Containing the extensive "Maginot" line of fortifications, constructed with French aid and almost as effective as France's Maginot line, loss of the region would lay Czechoslovakia wide open to military rape. Located within the Sudeten rim are most of Czechoslovakia's industries, of her coal and iron resources. The famed Skoda munitions plant at Pilsen, dangerously near...
...wriggle awfully self-consciously. You say: "... Many sound wine critics con-cede . . . that in its class . . ." etc., etc. What is a sound wine critic? I am a sound wine critic. It is confounded snobbery to think that the only people who can tell good wine from bad are experts who spend their short lives sipping and spewing out, sipping and spewing out. never swallowing a mouthful for fear of perverting their taste. I myself have no fear of perverting my taste. And I am just about the only wine critic in the world...
...Public Prosecutor's charges and the confessions of all 17 prisoners, they had conspired with Exile Trotsky, who is now in Mexico (TIME, Jan. 25), not only to accomplish 3,500 railway wrecks in Russia in two years, but also in connivance with Japanese and German spies to cede to these countries, after a war which would unseat Dictator Stalin, vast areas of Siberia and the Ukraine...