Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Treasury Department ordered all imports from Czecho-Slovakia treated at once as imports from Germany, thus depriving them of tariff concessions formerly en joyed under the CzechoSlovak trade treaty...
...Angeles, Jan Masaryk, son of the late Czecho-Slovakia's late "George Washington," Dr. Thomas Masaryk, last week declared: "Now he [Hitler] has gobbled up the most indigestible people in the world. They will give him a bellyache." In Washington, Nazis got their first taste of Czech indigestibility...
...week Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires (who in the continued absence of Herr Dieckhoff is Adolf Hitler's No. i man in the U. S.), received orders to take over the building standing right next door to the late Austrian Legation-the Legation of Czecho-Slovakia. He ordered two secretaries to go over and take possession. After they left he rang up Colonel Vladimir Hurban, the Czecho slovak Minister, to say his underlings were on their...
Colonel Hurban is a steely grey Slovak of 56, who during the Great War fought valiantly with the Russian armies* and under General Allenby in Palestine. He had just been talking to the State Department, which next day had something of its own to say about the rape of Czecho slovakia (see p. 11). He told Dr. Thomsen with urbanity that he ordinarily took no orders from Adolf Hitler...
Thus the nearly extinct Czecho-Slovak Republic still survived last week with a 50-ft. front on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Czech consuls in other U. S. cities followed Minister Hurban's lead. In Minneapolis, Consul Charles E. Proschek said: "I have never received any instructions or training in rules of etiquette on what to do when confronted with international bandits. . . . They can go back whence they came with my compliments." The State Department soon made known that it would in no way assist the Nazis to seize the Czech Government's property...