Word: czecho
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...heart of Budapest is a huge map of the old Kingdom of Hungary, done in shrubbery, with a Danube of blue flowers winding through its length. It shows, besides the Hungary of the Treaty of Trianon, all the provinces taken away by that treaty: Slovakia and Ruthenia, ceded to Czecho-Slovakia; Croatia, ceded to Yugoslavia; the Banat, ceded to Yugoslavia and Rumania; and the broad plateau of Transylvania, which Rumania also took. Around the map is a border of flowers spelling out in Hungarian...
...been many honest pacifists, as now in the U. S. There had been many who believed the German propagandists who told them they could buy peace with Germany. There had been those who believed that Hitler would be satisfied after the occupation of the Saar, after Austria, after Czecho-Slovakia. "There are also Americans who argue that if Hitler should conquer Great Britain he would be content to stop there, and that the United States would be able to cooperate happily with the Hitler Empire of Europe. To believe this is to misunderstand the entire nature of the Nazi system...
...wake, the Committee raised and spent $25,000,000 in its first decade to care for Europe's needy. Without neglecting its work in the U. S. (among West Virginia miners, Okies in California), the Committee is once more going full blast in Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, hopes soon to be permitted in The Netherlands and Belgium. The Committee is Episcopalian Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite charity, to which she has given some $150,000 from radio earnings...
...Britain instituted its "noninterference" policy in Spain. Italy and Germany-and Russia-continued to interfere. In 1937 China, a League member, was invaded by Japan. The League did nothing. In 1938 Russia proposed a joint demarche of Great Britain, France and the U. S. S. R. to protect Czecho-Slovakia, offered to carry out "to the letter" her guarantees to France and Czecho-Slovakia. Munich followed. In 1939, after Germany took the rest of Czecho-Slovakia, Russia proposed a six-power conference to devise resistance to further aggression. Great Britain said the proposal was "premature." A month later Russia proposed...
March 13. Hitler takes remainder of Czecho-Slovakia...