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...Germany swallowed Austria last year, the Bank of England played ball with the Nazis, obligingly turned over to them the gold it held in the name of the Austrian banks. Later, British owners of Austrian bonds had trouble getting their money. When last March the Germans goose-stepped into Czecho-Slovakia, the British Government quickly rushed through Parliament a bill forbidding British banks to transfer former Czech gold and credits (estimated as high as $100,000,000) to the new masters of Prague. Devised to protect British creditors, this measure pleased Britons more as a means of preventing the criminal...
...Kladno, 18 miles northwest of Prague, live Czech coal miners and steel workers.* The town was known in free Czecho-Slovakia as a Communist stronghold and since the German occupation has been the centre of a quiet but effective sabotage campaign against German rule that has everywhere tried the short tempers of the new masters of Bohemia. Bilingual Czech waiters have suddenly "lost" their knowledge of German when waiting on German customers. Czech school children have mimicked the German Army goose step-and grownups have had to pay for the mimicry with jail terms. Czech girls who date German soldiers...
When Adolf Hitler openly marched into Czecho-Slovakia last March, taking physical possession of the country he had morally conquered in September, loud words emanated from London in protest, few from Paris. Months before, the Premier had said, "The role of Don Quixote does not suit me." His answers to Herr Hitler's moves this time were to be not words but alliances and pacts. Three days after CzechoSlovakia's conquest, with another crisis rapidly developing, the Premier again asked for and got his third set of decree powers, valid for eight months more. Thus M. Daladier...
Last week that policy was made public. Having promised the Jews a "homeland" and the Arabs an independent State in Palestine, the British in a White Paper as bland as Lord Runciman's apologia for the Czecho-Slovakia debacle, chose to interpret this to mean that the Jews should have about as much "homeland" as they have now achieved in Palestine, but that they should not be allowed to expand to a point of depriving the Arabs of their majority control in politics and land ownership. Jews fumed and charged that once more Great Britain had expediently bowed...
...when he said: "We are no longer able to act as if tyranny did not exist. Therefore, we must act in order that it shall not exist. In this struggle, every day more urgent, no one can exactly take our place." Solemnly they heard him call the rape of Czecho-Slovakia "a flagrant violation," the rape of Albania a gesture "of diabolical flamboyance," cry "that from this great meeting there comes forth a sentence without appeal against the mystics of violence...