Word: czecho
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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...
...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...
...until the spring of 1942 did Mrs. Stone confess. She explained that she had used the pen name Ethel Vance ("It sounds like a name you were born with and can't get rid of") because: i) her daughter Eleanor (Baroness Perenyi) was then living in Czecho-Slovakia, 2) Husband Captain Ellis Stone was U.S. Naval Attache in Paris, and use of the Stone name might have been undiplomatic. But the new name had already become fashionable. A few weeks after Escape appeared, Mrs. Stone's father hired a negro cook. "Name, please?" asked Father Zaring. "Ethel Vance...
...Vichy looked across France's borders, rumors came that if the Allies move on Casablanca, Italy will move on Tunis, Spain on Tangier and Morocco. Such moves might be called friendly. But Vichy remembered Czecho-Slovakia's friendly neighbors...