Word: centralized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with finality, it proved that modern communication and enlightenment of the peoples reduce the chances of an outbreak of war. For the first time in history, a major conflict had been settled by talking instead of shooting first. And, while all men of good will deplored the dismemberment of central Europe's one island of democracy and were saddened for the painful uprooting of the minorities which will leave the ceded territories, realists took heart from one fact. Unlike the rapes of Manchukuo and Ethiopia, the Czechoslovak rape had at least set a precedent, which might flower into...
Boston did not know, possibly, that their reporters' only source of news was the Central Square desk sergeant; that a Cambridge policeman had made the four arrests (and had arrested, inevitably, the wrong men); that a Cambridge policeman was asking the pound of flesh; that the Post Commander was another Cambridge policeman...
Confused accounts of eyewitnesses seemed to place the chief disturbance in the vicinity of Quincy Street, where a group of students marched between the two bands in the parade with arms upraised in a Nazi salute. The police, however, made no arrests until the procession reached Central Square up to which point Ambrose and company said they had peacefully followed the parade on the sidewalk...
...Legionnaires, who were marching from the Hotel Continental to their headquarters in the Municipal Building, Central Square, first encountered difficulty when they came into the straight-away on Massachusetts Avenue. Swarms of students fell in behind the rifle squad, cheering, jeering, goose-stepping and giving the Nazi salute. The body of students, mostly Freshmen, was successful in cutting off and later disorganizing a brass band composed of Junior Legionnaires...
...Sudeten Mountains have been the traditional Austro-German frontier, he stated. Successive attempts at domination of Central Europe have never stamped out the small nationalities, and the Versailles Treaty merely recognized in Czechoslovakia what had always been an economic unit, the anti-Nazi professor continued...