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Britain's military alliance with France under the Locarno Pact of 1925 . . . although it did not guarantee Czechoslovakia against aggression as it did Belgium, made it inevitable that if France went to war to fulfill its own direct obligation under the Franco-Czech Treaty of 1924, England would be drawn in ... England was deeply committed, by her treaty with France and by her official actions . . . The illustrious father of Mr. Churchill has admitted that Great Britain was deeply involved and that "it must be recorded with regret that the British Government not only acquiesced but encouraged the French Government...
...four years ago, when Finland's Communists (a smaller group proportionally than those in France or Italy) were on the point of launching a full-blown Czech-type coupled by Minister of the Interior Leino, Finland's government fired the treacherous minister and ruthlessly purged all Reds from his police force. It was the boldest anti-Red gesture made by any free country in Europe since the war, but Moscow said not a word...
...Unlike Korea's 38th parallel, which ran approximately eastwest, the Potsdam line dividing Germany snakes unevenly from north to south roughly along the line of the eleventh meridian east of Greenwich, until it reaches Bavaria, where West German territory bulges eastward to the Czech border...
...Australia's Frank Sedgman, the London tennis title-final warmup for Wimbledon -over his Davis Cup teammate, Mervyn Rose, 10-8, 6-2; in London. Doubles winners: the U.S.'s Budge Patty and ex-Czech Jaroslav Drobny over Rose and Australian Don Candy...
...Veteran Jaroslav Drobny, 33, a self-exiled Czech, the French Tennis Championship, over Australia's Frank Sedgman, 6-2, 6-0, 3-6, 6-4; in Paris...