Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the newscasters put the matter up to their home offices. Excluded from visits to battle fronts, forbidden to quote directly from German newspapers, forbidden to so much as mention the current anti-Semitic drive or Gestapo rule in Czecho-Slovakia, they were further annoyed by Nazi blue pencilers who tried to add to their copy as well as slash...
...people of Czecho-Slovakia stuck to sabotage. Arriving in Manhattan, Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk of Czecho-Slovakia explained why most of Europe's governments-in-exile encourage sabotage rather than bloody revolution. Said he: "The Nazis have already killed 2,000 of our people. My message to the Czechs, when I speak every week by short wave from London, is telling them to slow down production in the factories. Take the Skoda works with, say, 40,000 workers. If every one of those men" dawdles and takes an extra two minutes when he goes to the rest room...
...people of Czecho-Slovakia got the same treatment as Yugoslavia's open rebels. Chief Executioner Heydrich made no fine distinction among the victims of his firing squad and noose. Many of his victims were saboteurs. Many were small businessmen and peasants who owned guns or listened to foreign radio programs. Many were simply Czechs. They were all the same to Reinhard Heydrich; his job was at stake...
...Austria in 1938 Adolf Hitler had gambled with all he had, and won. In Czecho-Slovakia, in Poland, in the Low Countries and France he had gambled with all he had; each time he had won. He was gambling with all he had in Russia, and again he seemed to be winning. But if Hitler had lost a single one of these gambles, that would have meant the end of Hitler...
...Czecho-Slovakia the Nazi "protector," Reinhard Heydrich, kept hustling trussed-up Czechs to the execution walls. Near Oslo 500 Norwegians fought a pitched battle with Nazi troops. While Leader Eugène Deloncle of the pro-Nazi French Cagoulards was in training to fight with the Germans in Russia, someone murdered his secretary in Paris. The Nazis were said to have shot twelve Rumanian Generals who were unwilling to continue fighting Russia. In Yugoslavia open warfare continued between Nazi mechanized divisions and the Chetnik guerrillas. (Reports told of a Serbian "Joan of Arc" who led an attack on the town...