Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nigsberg two months ago Chancellor Hitler thundered that "there will be no more shooting against German racial comrades along the German borders." Since then Czechoslovakians have been afraid that some Czech frontier guard, policeman or soldier would lose his head and kill one of the little nation's 3,200,000 Sudeten Germans who inhabit the frontier strip along the 1,300-mile Czech-German border. One night last week, with the blatant Nazi sub-minority of the Sudeten German Minority indulging in a terroristic and propaganda campaign in preparation for municipal elections to be held at week...
Incident. Two Sudeten Germans astride a motorcycle roaring along the road to Germany near the Czech town of Cheb disregarded an order by a Czech traffic patrol to halt. Word flashed ahead to the next patrol and when the motorcyclists again refused to halt, the guards opened fire. Both Germans were killed. Anxious local Czech officials explained that the guards had merely done their duty, that both Germans were notorious Nazi agitators and had been implicated in previous serious political offenses, but soon the wires in every chancellery in Europe were humming. The Big Question hanging menacingly over Europe...
Another Austria? Nevertheless, there were alarming indications last week that Chancellor Hitler might decide to duplicate his Austrian coup. Der Angriff reminiscently declared that the Czech government of President Eduard Benes was "no longer master of the situation." This almost directly paralleled the technique that prefaced the occupation of Austria, when Austrian Nazi Chief Seyss-Inquart "invited" the German army to take control because Austria "was no longer master" of its own situation...
Nazis, who form a dynamic sub-minority in the Sudeten German Minority in Czechoslovakia, last week redoubled the vigor of their efforts to create "impossible situations" for the Czechoslovak Government of President Eduard Benes, a Czech. In their villages Nazi orators raised the cry that offspring of Czech-German marriages are "half-breeds!" With planes from Nazi Germany incessantly swooping over the Czechoslovak frontier and droning above Sudeten Germans last week, plug-uglies of the Nazi minority indulged with impunity in terroristic acts against non-Nazi Sudeten Germans. In vain a representative of the Sudeten German Social Democratic loyalists, Deputy...
Convincing evidence that Mussolini has decided to give Hitler a free hand in Czechoslovakia is also borne out by newspaper items, according to Dr. Salvemini, for Fascist papers have now been ordered to publish anti-Czech articles...