Word: czecho
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...After Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Belgium and France, including Paris, had been conquered, certain important civic and business leaders in this country came to see me to ask that I talk to certain very important people who had come from Europe authorized to speak for some of the highest Nazi and military officials. I looked them up and found these same representatives came with certain credentials that were unquestionably bona fide, vouched for by some of the finest banking facilities in this country...
...Germany, so the Nazis strode to power in Europe. In February 1938 Hitler purged his generals' ranks, took over supreme command of the fighting forces, welded diplomacy and military might to Nazi policy. Six weeks later Austria was annexed. The next summer Nazi fury was unleashed in Czecho-Slovakia; in September Munich gave away the Sudetenland. Back to London went Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waving a scrap of paper, croaking "peace in our time...
...Riemann: "If we stick to the legal way our enemies will be destroyed, because right will be on our side." But Social Democracy was destroyed. "In the case of Germany the democrats of Weimar had relinquished the bastion without raising a hand in its defense; in the case of Czecho-Slovakia, it was the democrats of the world...
...Others: World's Champion Alexandre Alexandrovitch Alekhine of France, The Netherlands' Max Euwe, Russia's Mikhail Botwinnik, Estonia's Paul Keres, Czecho-Slovakia's Salo Flohr, Manhattan's Reuben Fine...
...iron mines, mills, foundries, and shipyards in France, mines in Belgium and Poland, plants in Russia, finally founded the holding company, Union Européenne Industrielle et Financière. Through it Schneider-Creusot ultimately controlled 182 armaments works in France, 230 outside, including the giant Skoda works in Czecho-Slovakia. Skoda was allegedly Schneider's "dirty works" plant-handler of contracts Schneider-Creusot would have found politically embarrassing. Through control of the newspapers Le Temps and Journal des Débats, he propagandized on international affairs. When Europe was dreaming of a permanent peace Schneider once confidently remarked...