Word: czechoslovakia
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...main riddle in the Middle East [May 17] is why the U.S. Government doesn't remember what happened as a result of Chamberlain's forcing Czechoslovakia to give in to Hitler's demand for the Sudetenland. Now Secretary of State Rogers is forcing Israel to give up the Sinai, supposedly to Egypt, but actually to Russia, which really controls the military power in Egypt...
Invented in Czechoslovakia eleven years ago, the object of the excitement is a sliver of porous plastic, slightly larger than a regular contact lens, that becomes soft and pliable when it touches the tears of weak-eyed wearers. Because of its agreeable flabbiness, the soft contact lens can be fitted in one sitting, as compared to four for hard contact lenses. Ophthalmologists generally agree that the soft variety is more comfortable and less likely to become scratched or to pop out unexpectedly than the hard kind. There are some 90 million near-and far-sighted Americans, but only 10 million...
...thousands like it-high cheekbones, timid eyes poked like currants into a doughy Slavic mask, pale from weeks in steerage-streamed through Ellis Island. Add shades, a black jacket and dyed silver hair and you have America's perverse Huck Finn, son of Mrs. Julia Warhola from Mikova, Czechoslovakia-a face that, after Picasso's monkey visage, is perhaps the most instantly recognizable in art today...
...story begins, we meet again those bungling French and British statesmen, the chaps who need not have gone to war at all, at least not at such a time on such a scale. Selling out Czechoslovakia with its 35 trained and ready divisions cut the heart out of effective opposition to Hitler in Central Europe. Allied military planners, on Liddell Hart's evidence, were little better than the politicians. He credits them with inviting Hitler's invasion of Scandinavia with loudly proclaimed plans to mine Norwegian ports and cut off the flow of iron ore from Sweden...
...undesirable" elements and watch for prospective recruits. If a student is among the several dozen chosen for guerrilla training, he receives special courses and favors and may discover that he has become irresistible to pretty Russian girls. Later he may be "farmed out" to North Korea, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia or elsewhere for further instruction. When he finally goes home, he remains under the guidance of a resident...