Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs has. been shown in 48 countries outside the U. S., under names ranging from SnÖvit och de Sju Dvärjarma (Swedish) to Snjeharka (Czech), with "dubbings" in Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, etc. Recently, to whet a possibly surfeited U. S. appetite, Disney announced he would withdraw the English version from U. S. circulation...
Detained at Ellis Island was 25-year-old Thomas Bat'a, son and namesake of the late Czech boot tycoon (died 1932) and step-nephew of President Jan Bat'a. The trouble: Thomas Bat'a's Czecho-Slovakian passport, which proclaimed him as a citizen of a non-existent country. Later he was released on his recognizance, pending appeal...
Flush from the Czech seizure, the Führer began to threaten Poland. The German Army was already partly mobilized. Troops were moved toward the Polish Corridor and toward Danzig, the Free City on the Baltic, where Poland has large interests and investments. East Prussia had become an armed camp. Finally the Nazi Government submitted its demands: German absorption of Danzig, a German auto road across the Polish Corridor, a Polish signature on the German-Italian-Japanese anti-Comintern Pact...
...Czech territory. Meanwhile, Premier Volosin, failing to get protection from Führer Hitler or assistance from Rumania's King Carol, fled into Rumania in a peasant's oxcart...
Ironic coincidence of the week: On the day the Hungarian Army marched into Carpatho-Ukraine, a Hungarian-Czech commission announced that it had fixed the final boundary line between Carpatho-Ukraine and Hungary. The commission had been hard at work ever since November 2, when Italy and Germany agreed to let Hungary have parts of Carpatho-Ukraine...