Word: czecho
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White Paper the British Government printed the obituary. It noted that "Germany has deliberately destroyed arrangements concerning Czecho-Slovakia reached in 1938," that "the Prime Minister has already stated in a message broadcast to the Czecho-Slovak people Sept. 30, 1940 the attitude of His Majesty's Government with regard to the arrangements." The Paper recalled that the British had officially told Dr. Benes that they considered the corpse a corpse...
What Now? Most welcome to the Czechs was the British conclusion: "At the final settlement of Czecho-Slovak frontiers, to be reached at the end of the war, [the Government] will not be influenced by any changes affected in and since 1938." It was most welcome because neither the Atlantic Charter nor last June's British-Russian Agreement* have cooled the jingoistic fires over which Europe's exiled governments in London hash and rehash post-war boundary lines. The Czech hash has always included Sudetenland, which the Munich Agreement bestowed on Germany...
Though not yet in the class of the late Paddy Finucane (TIME, July 27), curly-haired, handsome Max, D.F.C., is one of Britain's aces. In London, at week's end Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes announced that young Max would get another decoration: the Czech War Cross. That made two things Benes and the Beaver shared in common-a high regard for Wing Commander Aitken and mounting impatience for a second front...
...black & red uniforms perched on the top of the Square's air-raid shelter and played the International and God Save the King. Ten munitions workers, claiming to represent 4,000 others, presented a second-front petition to No. 10 Downing Street. Ex-President Eduard Benes of ex-Czecho-Slovakia urged an immediate second front in the hope of obtaining peace "within a year." Ex-War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha demanded either a second front or continuous British bombing raids. But the most powerful new voice added to the clamor was that of tough Jack Tanner, president...
...tough veteran of World War I, got to his feet. He had two broken ribs. Perhaps it was unfortunate for Heydrich that Hitler was within hearing. Otherwise Heydrich might easily have died, sooner, to be sure, but more quickly and pleasantly than he did last month in Czecho-Slovakia...