Word: czecho
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...Britain. The Dutch presumably hope to regain their empire. France is an African power as well as a European power. In general, the saltwater peoples have divisive ideas about "Mother Europe." Nor do the landlocked countries of eastern Europe dare come out for the idea of federation. The Czecho-Slovak Government in Exile has already made its peace with Stalin and turned thumbs down on a union with Poland. It looks as if Europe were going to remain fragmented, or merely united on the negative idea of keeping the German continental center powerless...
When Czech President Benes flies to Moscow to sign a 20-year alliance, he may provide real evidence that a Danube Federation is in the making. In such a body, a postwar, pro-Soviet Czecho-Slovakia would have the No. i position. Industrial Austria and Czecho-Slovakia might neatly complement agrarian Hungary, perhaps offer a haven for Rumania and for Croatia & Slovenia if prewar Yugoslavia should not revive. The rest of Southeastern Europe-Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania-might be encouraged to form a parallel Balkan Federation...
...Czecho-Slovakia has had to give up its grain, its gold reserve, mines, heavy industries and important textile industry. The British report listed Czecho-Slovakia's total tribute...
...beyond these areas are lands which may well be subject to discussion: Poland, the Balkan countries of Greece, Bulgaria, Albania, Yugoslavia; the remainder of Poland; Hungary; Czecho-Slovakia. It is there that Messrs. Eden and Hull may find both their greatest dangers and their greatest opportunities for immediate, concrete discussion with Molotov...
...doubt that Italians will vote for a progressive republic." Carlo Sforza had an old man's vision: "When the time comes, there must first be agrarian reform, an end of landless peasants and great estates. The economy of Italy might well be patterned after that of prewar Czecho-Slovakia. A thriving Catholic nation of small landowners and busy workers is the best bulwark against communism...