Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain and France, however, have specifically guaranteed to help Poland to defend herself against any action which Poland considers a threat to her independence. Last week the Polish Government, having learned much from the Czecho-Slovakian lesson, let it be known that it would consider a seizure of Danzig a threat to Polish independence, that the Third Reich could not have Danzig without fighting for it. While reports from London and Paris said that the British and French Governments would advise the Poles to "negotiate," the Poles were determined not to accept mediation on the Czech pattern...
...last 25 years-which, Herr Hitler assured his deputies, would "extend far beyond the duration of my own life." Poland's answer was to reject the proposals, mobilize her Army, renew her old alliance with France, make a new one with Britain. By likening Poland to the Czecho-Slovakia of a year ago (a hotbed of anti-German oppressions, he said) Herr Hitler gave clear warning that he may try to deal with the recalcitrant Poles as he dealt with the Czechs...
When Hitler returned from his triumphal tour of Czecho-Slovakia last March, he was high-spirited, buoyant, talkative. Arriving in Berlin, he summoned Josef Lipski, solemn-visaged Polish Ambassador. Whipped up to "a mood of immense elation," Hitler chattered cheerily on his trip, his impressions of conquered Prague, suddenly fell silent and announced ominously: "The time has come to flatten out the obstacles to the permanent friendship of Germany and Poland...
...first anti-Semitic outbreaks under the Nazis he considered it likely that Hitler would try to make peace with the people he has wronged." He also prophesied that Hitler would drop his demands for colonies in return for a free hand in Central Europe. A month before Germany occupied Czecho-Slovakia Augur released an inside story to the effect that Hitler was contemplating restoring the Sudeten area to the Czechs...
Last March Nazis used a discontented minority of Slovaks to dismember and appropriate Czecho-Slovakia. Today Yugoslavia has one of the worst minority problems in Europe, and last week Yugoslavia, once secured by French friendship and membership in the Little Entente and Balkan Pact, was in a tight spot: the no man's land between the Axis and the British Peace Front. If the Fascist powers can get control of Yugoslavia, they will have taken the first big step to becoming the masters of the Balkans and will be miles further on the road to the British-dominated Near...