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...mantle so precipitately last week. In one fundamental sense it was a simple bank-robbing act. Germany, which must buy important raw materials outside her borders, needs real money. Germany reports about $29,000,000 in gold left (some esti mates: as high as $200,000,000). Czecho slovakia, an exporting country, had $80,000,000 in gold in its national bank, enough to offset Germany's adverse trade balance for a few months, and about two and a half times that much in foreign assets and ex change, which Germany may not get (see p. 18). This loot...
Questions. Once the first shock of the grab had passed, all kinds of questions began to rear their puzzling heads. The first was: How surprised were the Governments of the world at the second Czecho-Slovak coup...
...weeks private correspondents from Czecho-Slovakia had spoken of the intense activity in Prague of German Gestapo agents. For a year young men like those who had circulated around Vienna in 1937-38, dropping a word here and a word there for Naziism, had been active in Prague. The swift, smooth pace of the occupation (see p. 17) showed that the Germans had made organized preparations for it well in advance...
...Adolf Hitler moves should no longer surprise the world. But last week he outdid himself. The four familiar steps of a Hitler conquest-preliminary propaganda, conference with victims, march of troops, and triumphal entry-followed each other like the rapid fire of a machine gun. His culminating campaign in Czecho-Slovakia lasted exactly three days...
Monday. "German boys," lied Berlin papers on Monday, "are mishandled with brass knuckles . . . while Jews applaud. . . . German houses are fired on by Czech armored cars. . . . Murder and arson rule again in the Czecho-Slovak Republic. . . ." Radio announcers talked of "Communists in Czech gendarme uniforms." Next day the push began in earnest...