Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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October 1st. The reported Chamberlain Map and the Hitler Map, superimposed upon each other (see cut, p. 14), show at a glance the geographical difference between the Berchtesgaden Plan and the Godesberg Demands. Either would give Germany all the most important fortifications of "the Czech Maginot Line," which encircles the West end of Czechoslovakia. To sanction either would mean that Britain and France had scrapped League and other post-War treaty obligations which have been supposed to safeguard the "territorial integrity" of Czechoslovakia...
...After German territory has gone to Germany, and each of the other terrorized peoples has decided where it wants to belong, Germany is even ready to guarantee the frontiers of the remaining Czech State. . . . When Mr. Chamberlain asked me to agree to have plebiscites not in all parts of Czechoslovakia but only in the German districts I GAVE IN ! I also agreed to a German-Czech commission to supervise the plebiscite. ... I would also have accepted international police control! It was all only the practical realization of what Benes had already promised...
Premier-General. How the hard, resolute Czech people would react in a crisis was shrewdly guessed by Psychologist Dr. Benes, and with perfect confidence he left it to them to mill spontaneously through the streets of Prague in monster demonstrations which finally reached 250,000, shouting and screaming hour after hour "Give us arms! We want to fight! Don't yield a centimeter! Give us Syrovy...
...Free Corps") appeared in Mufti, wearing Freikorps armbands and supplied with light German weapons of every sort, including hand grenades and machine guns, to wage localized warfare upon Czechoslovak towns and customs houses all along the Sudeten frontier. At As, the birthplace of No. 1 Sudeten Nazi Konrad Henlein, Czech gendarmes who fortnight ago described themselves as "Sons of Death'' were driven out with heavy casualties. The town of As is the fingernail of a tiny finger of Czechoslovakia extending 18 miles into Germany, and Sudetens in this salient proudly pinched themselves off. They issued proclamations defying Prague...
...international harmony, radio has a bad record as a peace maker. It was no bar to war in Spain, war in China. In every major crisis since the World War, radio has shouted provocative insults, challenges. All last week Berlin's official broadcasting voice screamed against "the Czech mass murderers," bombarded the rest of the world with atrocity stories, invented a radio language in which the Czech army was "the Hussite mob" or the "Red Horde," the Czech Republic a soviet, Czech mobilization "Moscow's war mongering," Premier Syrovy a "Communist." Not only does radio permit nation...