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...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...
...State for 47 years, he was largely responsible for reforms which tended to take foreign service out of politics and to put it on a merit basis. He became Assistant Secretary of State in 1924 under Secretary Charles Evans Hughes, resigned the post in 1937 to become Minister to Czecho Slovakia, retired...
Renner's Europe consists of nine great states: a commonwealth of Great Britain and Holland, a Fennoscandic Union (Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Esthonia), Czecho-Polska ("already being planned by the Czech and Polish Governments-in-exile" and including Lithuania), a Balkan Union ("Some trouble may be expected from the Bulgars"), Italy (plus Dalmatia, Tunisia, Corsica, Nice), France (minus Alsace-Lorraine, plus the Spanish Basque provinces and parts of Switzerland), an Iberian Union (Spain and Portugal), Russia (with Latvia, and a corridor to the Dardanelles), a German-Magyar State (Germany, Austria, Alsace, part of Switzerland, Hungary...
...Watch what we do to the Czechs," said Heydrich. "We killed 82 of them the first four days after I got hurt. And we'll kill hundreds more. We'll kill them or they'll kill us. There must be no Czecho-Slovakia left, no one left in Europe who opposes the German Reich. You might have thought it was an old-fashioned idea to round up hostages and shoot them by the hundreds when one of the conquerors is killed. It isn't. It's effective, and after a while it becomes pleasant...
...bullets shattered his spine. Then send him back to his hell on earth. . . ." And that is the reason why the conquered people of Europe, the "silent people" who suffer and wait and hope for liberation, first heard last week that Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi hangman, had been killed in Czecho-Slovakia; then, later, that he was not dead but would be hopelessly crippled. Heydrich might still die, but the reason he kept on living for awhile was simply that hell would not have...