Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany charged that Czech planes had flown over German frontier territory during the week, photographing military emplacements and attempting to locate non-existent German troop concentrations...
...German press raged that a Sudeten German farmer had been beaten by Czech soldiers when he failed to produce an identity card...
...Germany claimed that Czech engineers had been detected at the German side of a bridge near Linz trying to fire it with straw and gasoline. The Czechs answered that the bridge had been destroyed six months...
...from Prague. 2) A plebiscite under foreign control to determine whether the Sudetens want to be citizens of Germany or Czechoslovakia. "The result," assured Henlein, "would be a 98% majority for Germany." 3) "The third solution," continued the Führer, "would be simpler still." It is that if Czech repression of the Sudetens continues, their resentment may one day force the German Government by direct action to bring them within the frontiers of the Reich...
Settlement? Evidence that the Czech leaders want time to consider Henlein's demands, perhaps to accept his "autonomy" solution, was seen last week when they postponed for a fortnight a session of Parliament that is to tackle the problem...