Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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France is owed, principally by partially insolvent or bankrupt countries (Russia, Belgium, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania, Greece, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Italy, Montenegro, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary and Austria), a total of 15,282,000,000 gold francs ($2,949,426,000). Hence the French feel justified in excluding their debts to England and America from consideration in their budgets, until the matters of Germany's reparations and the debts of other nations to France can likewise be considered...
...Benes, Czecho-Slovakian Foreign Minister, made a speech at Prague in which he defined the attitude of Czecho-Slovakia toward Hungary. After he had finished his opponents said: " No one should know the disposition of his country toward another better than Dr. Benes, but when he resorts to choosing facts calculated to reveal Hungary in the most odious light, his assertions sink to the worthless level of propaganda...
...course of a long tirade against Hungary, Dr. Benes made it plain that Czecho-Slovakia backed France against Britain and the other Allies in the matter of refusing Hungary permission to raise an international loan freed from the obligations imposed by the Treaty of Trianon. The reason is, so far as he made it evident, that Hungary, unlike Austria, has accepted her treaty obligations only under protest...
...Czechoslovakia, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania). The Habsburgs were not excluded from returning to the throne of Hungary by the Treaty of Trianon, and, despite the endeavors of the Little Entente through the Council of Ambassadors, the Habsburg family still remains eligible to reascend the throne, providing the Allied Powers approve. Czecho-Slovakia sees a danger to her new-won autonomy, if the Habsburgs come back to Hungary. This is partly true. There are 1,200,000 Magyars out of a total population of 13,595,816 in Czechoslovakia. According to reports, these people would prefer to be under the Habsburgs...
...attack on Czecho-Slovakia goes farther. In the peace settlement Hungary lost 119,847 square miles of land, or over two-thirds of her territory, together with her richest mining districts and nearly 3,500,000 Magyars, or about one-third of her pre-war Magyar population. To this must be added the fact that Hungary was less guilty in the events that led up to the outbreak of the War than was any other of the Central Powers. Yet she has suffered more severely than any of the late enemy countries...