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Postern. If forced back into her Triangle, Poland can expect direct aid only through her southeast postern, the valley of the Dniester down to Rumania and the Black Sea. Clearly seen last week was the reason why Poland, when Hitler carved Czecho-Slovakia, stood watchful guard over those Carpathian peaks which frown down on the Dniester Valley. When Hungarians rushed in and seized the Carpatho-Ukraine (eastern tip of Czecho-Slovakia), Poles embraced them at their new common border, for Hungary is traditionally Poland's friend. Much depends for Poland on Hungary's continued neutrality, for only by marching around...
...lips. The coming of war meant the final breakdown of his hard-boiled system of checks and balances, playing off the totalitarians against the democracies for the peace of Poland. The coming of war also meant that Colonel Beck's brave stand against Adolf Hitler after the dismemberment of Czecho-Slovakia had failed; that matching the Fuhrer at his own game, bluff for bluff, had only pushed him beyond bluff to blows...
What made Pius XII particularly sad was the thought of his sheep fighting each other: 37,900,000 German Catholics (21,000,000 of 67,000,000 pre-Hitler Germans, plus 6,100,000 Austrian souls, plus 10,800,000 in Czecho-Slovakia) pitted against 23,000,000 devout Poles-just about his stanchest followers anywhere...
...February, rumors began to have substance : Plans were afoot for a secret parley in Sweden. One-eyed General Jan Syrovy, the "strong man" who became Premier of Czecho-Slovakia during last September's Crisis and who seemed to disappear when Bohemia-Moravia became a protectorate, was rumored carrying mysterious messages from Hitler to Stalin and back, his object being to better the condition of his fellow Czechs under Hitler and to "revenge Munich." Hitler had told the Ambassador that Germany had no designs on the Ukraine, that Stalin should therefore consider a confidential exchange of views; Maxim Litvinoff stayed...
Munich. To Churchill, the military man, the loss of Czecho-Slovakia was bad enough; to Churchill, the political moralist it was frightful. Coming after the abdication crisis (when Churchill had attacked Prime Minister Baldwin, been hauled down in the House), the Munich pact unnerved him as the World War never had. "The blow has been struck!" he cried, and as he harped steadily on its enormity, brooded over Britain falling into the power orbit and influence of Nazi Germany," the stories that Winston Churchill was passing out of public life flourished in the first post-Munich relief...