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Word: czecho (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moldiest of all, however, is the fact that Czecho-Slovakian economy rested on its ability to import raw materials and export the finished product. Now that it is brought inside the closed Nazi economy of warfare, Czecho-Slovakia can no longer fulfill its economically useful purpose. The same thing happened after Anschluss, but fortunately for the Reich, Czecho-Slovakia, unlike Austria, can feed herself. Best hope for Czech as well as Austrian industry is that Dictator Hitler will soon grab some backward, goods-consuming neighbor States. Otherwise it goes without saying that the Czech standard of living will be lowered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loot | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...four plants of the Skoda works, a big subterranean plant in Slovakia, the famed Witkowitz plant near Moravská Ostrava, partly owned by the Rothschild banking interests of London, and a government-owned steel works at Kladno which manufactures rifles, revolvers and sabres. Other valuable things produced by Czecho-Slovakia were the air-cooled Tatra and Walter airplane engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told, the Führer will get arms for about 150,000 men. The army of occupation-never expected to fall much below this figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loot | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...almost all the CzechoSlovak loot could eventually have been acquired by "gentle pressure" without actual occupation. In moving into Czecho-Slovakia the Führer abandoned his previous policy of trying to create a string of ideological vassals (such as Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia showed signs of becoming), economically subservient but nominally independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Loot | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

...sorrow of Czecho-Slovakia, and still to the surprise of France and England, Aggrandizer Hitler took the Sudetenland on Oct.1, 1938-area: some 10,800 square miles; population: some 3,500,000; resources: rich deposits of coal and iron, highly developed industries principally textiles, glassware, chemicals. According to Neville Chamberlain, the Führer said at Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Mehrer's Progress | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

Last week while Germany was grabbing Bohemia and Moravia by the scruffs of their necks and whistling Slovakia home, the little Kingdom of Hungary was being allowed to make a grab of its own in the Carpatho-Ukraine, the easternmost prov ince of now extinct Czecho-Slovakia. Long have Poland and Hungary wanted a common border for protection against Germany. Last fall, when Czecho-Slovakia was amputated, they almost got it. Last week, when Adolf Hitler wiped Czechoslovakia off the map, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY: Tidbit | 3/27/1939 | See Source »

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