Word: czecho
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...independent Army officer have with good reason dreaded his heavy hand-and often landed in one of Herr Himmler's concentration camps. Moreover, little neighboring countries have particular reason to fear him; the presence of 55 Führer Himmler's young men in Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Lithuania, has invariably meant that the Nazi Reich was about to expand its borders...
...week, as the voice of his fugitive master, King Zog I, dwindled away behind the mountains of Greece, drowned out by the cannon of Mussolini, Minister Konitza betook himself to the State Department to protest his country's rape and to announce that he, like Minister Hurban of Czecho-Slovakia (TIME, March 27), would not yield his legation to his country's conquerors. Should he hear from King Zog that all was lost he would, he said, burn all his papers: the Italians should never have them...
...Lamented Czecho-Slovakia's lost freedom...
...European government seriously considered jumping in to save Albania's independence, nor did the protests against the Rome-Berlin axis aggression seem any louder than those that accompanied the German seizure of Czecho-Slovakia last month. Clearly Albania itself was not worth fighting over...
Detained at Ellis Island was 25-year-old Thomas Bat'a, son and namesake of the late Czech boot tycoon (died 1932) and step-nephew of President Jan Bat'a. The trouble: Thomas Bat'a's Czecho-Slovakian passport, which proclaimed him as a citizen of a non-existent country. Later he was released on his recognizance, pending appeal...