Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four Chiefs has made it increasingly certain, month by month, that Europe would sooner or later be offered a sudden and staggering proposed "Solution"- whether or not it be now accepted. Repeatedly correspondents have described Herr Hitler as bringing on the Czechoslovak crisis: primarily to break up the Russo-Czech-French alliance; secondly to get control of the Sudeten Mountains which have barred his "Push-to-the-East"; and only lastly because of the joy it would give all Germans to feel that their "Sudeten brothers" have been rescued from the euphemism of "Czech oppression...
...gist of what they had said flashed to all the world immediately. M. Daladier was revealed, for example, to have readily agreed with Mr. Chamberlain's long exposition that to fight for Czechoslovakia would not save her but only result in twofold catastrophe. First, said Mr. Chamberlain, the Czech Army would massacre the Sudetens as traitors who would be caught between them and the German Army. Second, the Germans would have enough success in the first few days or weeks of war to overrun much Czech territory where, enraged by the massacre of Sudetens, the Germans would massacre many...
...Germany, scrambling over the frontier at isolated points, and that at Eger, Führer Konrad Henlein had issued a proclamation before entering Germany as Czechoslovak Fugitive No. 1: "The use of machine guns, armored cars and tanks against defenseless* Sudeten Germans has reached the highest point of Czech oppression! ... It is definitely impossible for the Sudeten Germans and Czechs to live in the same state. . . . We want to return to our home† in the Reich! . . . God bless us in our just fight...
...true!" Government officials cried as press wires first broke the news, later confirmed to President Benes by the British and French Ministers. In London, the shock "cracked" Czechoslovak Minister Jan Masaryk, son of the late founder of Czechoslovakia, and he took his break down to bed. In Paris, the Czech Minister Stefan Osusky left the Foreign Office with tears in his eyes, crying: "Do you want to see a man convicted without a hearing? Here I stand!" In Moscow, the Czech Minister Zdenek Fierlinger exclaimed he was positive Russia would "march," but no other Moscow diplomat thought...
While this world with growing fear awaits the effect of the Czech and French warlike warning to Hitler, it should be aware of one great fact scared across the skies. Europe no longer has democracy as a leader; England, with France wagging at her heels, sold out to Germany, so that fascism is victorious and omnipotcut. The surrender at Godesburg signified the Anglo-French loss of supremacy, and with it was critically injured a well-meaning, well-led little nation which supposedly had the protection of its democratic neighbors. America only, so far silent on the European situation, is left...