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Last week, as a Prince came of age in Rumania amid pomp and medal-pinning, an idea came of age in Germany-in that part of Germany which was once Czecho-Slovakia-amid the deepest sadness. The occasion was the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the CzechoSlovak Republic, 21st birthday of the idea of national self-determination, freedom for the little, liberty for the helpless. The sadness was the more poignant because no trace of liberty could be found in the celebrations...
...Bulwark of Democracy." Whatever the fate of Finland, Scandinavia proper remained a prosperous, progressive and almost defenseless "Bulwark of Democracy," much better worth defending than were Austria, Czecho-Slovakia or Poland...
...established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen, is today in the front line. . . . The Allied aircraft will often appear over your towns* and will bring you encouragement and assistance...
Last spring, while Hitler was marching on Czecho-Slovakia, Czech Weinberger, who had scurried off to the U. S., put the finishing touches to his variations. In Manhattan last week, John Barbirolli and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave them a first performance in Carnegie Hall. The Philharmonic's first-nighters found they had to chase Weinberger's spreading chestnuts through a thick foliage of neat counterpoint, got the tune hurled at them forwards, backwards, upsidedown, finally lost themselves in the fugue which ended up sounding like a CzechoSlovakian polka. In the score, when the English tune .went...
...leased bases (TIME, Oct. 9), there was a great dither of excitement. J. Stalin had demanded that ratifications of the Soviet-Estonian Treaty be exchanged without fail in six days, a trick J. Stalin learned from A. Hitler when demanding a quick handover from little States like Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. Only an hour now remained before this time limit expired and the necessary papers had not yet arrived from Moscow. To nervous Estonians this seemed ominous. Already two Soviet military missions had arrived in Tallinn on trains heavily guarded by soldiers, and were living at the railway station...