Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Minister. Outside the station, crowds milled about cheering his arrival. As the official motor cavalcade rolled through the streets the crowds were held back not by lines of grim-faced troops with fixed bayonets as in Poland, Rumania, Yugoslavia, but by sport-clad sokols, members of Czech gymnastic societies. Foreign correspondents saw in this display a commentary on the democratic beliefs of Czechoslovakia, in sharp contrast to the strong-arm rule evident on the Delbos trip through the Balkans...
...other hand relations with Italy went from bad to worse, and in the past few weeks, because of certain diplomatic technicalities, have become sorely strained. With the breakup of the little entente, with the unpopularity of the Czech and Russian bonds, with the threat of Germany and the reversals of their interests in Spain, France is fading into eclipse...
...voice." With occasional articles, a book of memoirs, she managed to keep her foot in the door. Last winter in Vienna Lotte Lehmann wedged her way right through with a first novel.- With her book now in its third edition in Austria, translated into Italian, French and Czech, 35-year-old Novelist Lehmann last week made her debut in the U. S. A love story, in the same vein as Marcia Davenport's best-selling Of Lena Geyer, Mine Lehmann's story attempts no coloratura flights, is content to be an amiable romance...
...from disapproving of the [Czech-Soviet] treaty I look with favor upon it. . . . Moreover I should like to emphasize our friendship for France which nothing can destroy...
...France has, however, a much older military alliance with Czechoslovakia, and Czechoslovak Arms Manufacturing Co., owned 70% by the Czech Government, is 30% owned by the Skoda munitions trust which is according to latest reports in turn controlled by the French Comité des Forges. France, not wishing for another Fascist neighbor in Spain, might therefore have had equally good reason and better opportunity for interfering...