Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Herr Ribbentrop made it plain to M. Bonnet before signing the pact that Eastern Europe was henceforth to be regarded as German Lebensraum and that French alliances with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia were "atavisms." M. Bonnet did not contradict Herr Ribbentrop, signed...
...moral confusion. The basic distinction between civilizations in which justice and freedom are still realities and those in which they have been displaced by ruthless tyranny cannot be ignored. ... To suggest that nothing of consequence is at stake in the success of Japanese, German and Russian designs on China, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and the Baltic States, or in the successful resistance of these latter nations, is to be guilty of moral irresponsibility...
After Ethiopia and Spain, after Munich and the rape of Czecho-Slovakia, after the final diplomatic defeat of letting Russia sign with Germany instead of the Allies-British diplomacy came to World War II with a minus score. But since war began British diplomacy has a wholly different record...
...formally recognized as a Government-in-exile the Czechoslovak National Committee which set up shop in the same old house on the Rue Bonaparte, Paris, where Czechs also worked for their freedom during World War I. Last week British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax notified ex-President Eduard Benes of Czecho-Slovakia, leading committeeman, that His Majesty's Government was also prepared to "afford all requisite support to the Committee in its activities." Thus the Allies acquired a new ally, and a future Czecho-Slovakia, freed from German "protection," had a new Government ready to move in and take over...