Word: czecho
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When Austria fell to Hitler, nearby Czecho-Slovakia lay low and did nothing...
...When Czecho-Slovakia was dismembered, Poland not only did not raise a finger in protest but insisted on her share of the booty. When Poland's turn next came, she found herself isolated, friendless and helpless in Eastern Europe. The dictators strategy has been to take care of one victim at a time. A real system of collective security might well have put an end to such conquests years...
Next day, the woman in the case got in the last word. She told the Congress that it was fine, ignorance or no ignorance, for them to put themselves on the record, as they had, for Ethiopia, Spain, China, Czecho-Slovakia. As to Finland: "I don't think you should go on record for anything that you don't believe in. ... I know all the reasons that are given for the Russian invasion of Finland. I know all the reasons because I have heard them from my Communist friends-but I still say there is no excuse...
...Herr Ribbentrop made it plain to M. Bonnet before signing the pact that Eastern Europe was henceforth to be regarded as German Lebensraum and that French alliances with Poland and Czecho-Slovakia were "atavisms." M. Bonnet did not contradict Herr Ribbentrop, signed...
...moral confusion. The basic distinction between civilizations in which justice and freedom are still realities and those in which they have been displaced by ruthless tyranny cannot be ignored. ... To suggest that nothing of consequence is at stake in the success of Japanese, German and Russian designs on China, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland and the Baltic States, or in the successful resistance of these latter nations, is to be guilty of moral irresponsibility...