Word: czech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them the gold it held in the name of the Austrian banks. Later, British owners of Austrian bonds had trouble getting their money. When last March the Germans goose-stepped into Czecho-Slovakia, the British Government quickly rushed through Parliament a bill forbidding British banks to transfer former Czech gold and credits (estimated as high as $100,000,000) to the new masters of Prague. Devised to protect British creditors, this measure pleased Britons more as a means of preventing the criminal from profiting by his crime...
Last week Britons were chagrined to learn that the Nazis had in part sidestepped this restriction, had taken over $30,000,000 of Czech gold held in London in the name of the Bank for International Settlements. The Czech National Bank had a $30,000,000 credit with the B.I.S. The "World Bank," a Swiss corporation owned and operated by the central banks of the powers and a consortium of U. S. banks, keeps no gold in its modest headquarters at Basle, instead maintains deposits with the member banks, one of them the privately operated Bank of England. Goateed Montagu...
...Kladno, 18 miles northwest of Prague, live Czech coal miners and steel workers.* The town was known in free Czecho-Slovakia as a Communist stronghold and since the German occupation has been the centre of a quiet but effective sabotage campaign against German rule that has everywhere tried the short tempers of the new masters of Bohemia. Bilingual Czech waiters have suddenly "lost" their knowledge of German when waiting on German customers. Czech school children have mimicked the German Army goose step-and grownups have had to pay for the mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers...
...night last week German Police Sergeant Wilhelm Kniest was shot dead in a Kladno street, and the Nazis took advantage of the incident to throw their weight around. (Several days later a Czech policeman was killed at Nachod, 80 miles northeast of Prague. There the Nazis ordered only a "strict inquiry.") An official (German) version of the Kladno killing was that the sergeant was shot by a cowardly, unknown Czech. An unofficial (Czech) version was that he had been shot by another German policeman after a drunken brawl over a girl's favors. In Nachod, Germans claimed the Czech...
...Warsaw it rained early in the week. Waiting for the opening of the $1,000,000 Slujec Race Track in a few days, young bucks were spending their zlotys in swanky hotels like the Bristol and the Europejski, at cabarets along the Nowy Swiat, where thinly clad Czech performers were popular, and a Silesian polka called Trojaki was a hit. On the flat dark lands of Poland, rye, owing to the spring rains, looked like a record crop. Over the Carpathians in Rumania the 3,078,820 peasant families -more than 1,000,000 of them living in plain clay...