Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead of night, Czech soldiers at the disposal of the Carpatho-Ukraine Government, aided by armed members of the SIC, a militant political organization under German auspices, advanced on the border town of Munkacs, awarded to Hungary in the post-Munich territorial revision. Hungarian frontier police and troops met them. A battle began in which the Czech forces used tanks, armored cars and trench mortars...
Among Nazi officials the bright-eyed Propaganda Minister is called "Little Doctor." Year ago, in a Berlin film, a seductive Czech actress was asked how to get ahead in the world. Her reply was: "Go find a good doctor." The audience, which guessed what doctor was meant, roared with laughter. The Little Doctor hurriedly withdrew the film. An added quirk to the situation was the fact that the Czech leading lady, Lida Baarova, was a particularly admired protegee of Dr. Goebbels. Last week, as Dr. Goebbels lay sick abed with what was officially reported as intestinal influenza, Lida Baarova...
...literature to the intellectual world of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. At the same time he wrote two plays, The World We Live In and R. U. R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), protesting against mechanization and the technical perfection of Western civilization. As an exponent of modern Czech literature and a supporter of ex-President Benes, he was in disgrace during the last few months...
...Benes. Reviewing a guard of honor at the station in Prague, the General wept as he kissed the flag of the country whose army he had so largely created himself. As his train pulled out, a military band played the stately music of the Sambre et Meuse March, while Czech and Slovak officers, tears in their eyes, stood at the salute...
...South African Broadcasting Corp. was obliged to censor speeches. Ministers of the Dutch Reformed Church piled spiritual coals on the political fire. They declared that the wagons represented the Biblical Ark, that their axle grease would cure diseases, that children baptized in the wagons would lead blessed lives. The Czech crisis and the German pogroms were excuses for severe nationalistic outbreaks. In Johannesburg bearded Fascists fell on a band of antiFascists with iron bars, bicycle chains, knives, revolvers; over 100 were injured. In Benoni a synagogue was blown to the Promised Land...