Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen, is today in the front line. . . . The Allied aircraft will often appear over your towns* and will bring you encouragement and assistance...
Last spring, while Hitler was marching on Czecho-Slovakia, Czech Weinberger, who had scurried off to the U. S., put the finishing touches to his variations. In Manhattan last week, John Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave them a first performance in Carnegie Hall. The Philharmonic's first-nighters found they had to chase Weinberger's spreading chestnuts through a thick foliage of neat counterpoint, got the tune hurled at them forwards, backwards, upsidedown, finally lost themselves in the fugue which ended up sounding like a CzechoSlovakian polka. In the score, when the English tune .went...
...spectacle of the old bitter-end former Prime Minister advocating even listening to Adolf Hitler when the one formally announced war aim of Great Britain is to eradicate "Hitlerism" surprised those who had heard him on other occasions criticize the British Government for countenancing aggression in Manchukuo, Abyssinia, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia. While some M.P.s, many of them Tories, were known to feel that peace was worth almost any price, the House of Commons generally thought that the Lloyd George speech was at best untimely for Britain and were fearful that the reaction abroad would hurt. When hot-headed M.P.s came...
...German invasion began, called on French Premier Edouard Daladier, told him he planned to recruit at least 125,000 Poles to fight with the French. "Europe must be made over," declared Premier Sikorski, "in such a way as to restore independence and security to the oppressed nations: Poland and Czecho-Slovakia...
...leased bases (TIME, Oct. 9), there was a great dither of excitement. J. Stalin had demanded that ratifications of the Soviet-Estonian Treaty be exchanged without fail in six days, a trick J. Stalin learned from A. Hitler when demanding a quick handover from little States like Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. Only an hour now remained before this time limit expired and the necessary papers had not yet arrived from Moscow. To nervous Estonians this seemed ominous. Already two Soviet military missions had arrived in Tallinn on trains heavily guarded by soldiers, and were living at the railway station...