Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Catherine Spiegler, 45-year-old Czechoslovakian-born stenographer with some knowledge of German, English, Slovakian, and Hungarian writes for her mother, her sister Hedwig, and herself...
...local name for himself as a prognosticator in world politics. His major prediction was that Germany would precipitate a world war in the spring or summer of 1938 over the Czechoslovakia!! issue. A second prediction, the blunt assertion that "Germany will not march." appeared late in September when the Czechoslovakian crisis looked its blackest...
Into the tangled web of international politics there burst yesterday a new factor of the utmost importance, namely the danger of war with the planet Mars. Completely dwarfing the petty Czechoslovakian quibble, this new terror drove deep into the panic-stricken hearts of Americans, uncovering in its violence a fundamental fact which no thinking person can afford to ignore: namely, America is a part of the universe...
...whine of the raiding planes. It is echoed in a boy's voice calling, is converted into an agonized scream to end the play. Oddity of Air Raid is that, in spite of the fact that the situation is a straight projection of last month's Czechoslovakian crisis, when a man listened for war at his loudspeaker like a frightened bellboy at a murderer's keyhole, prescient Poet MacLeish began it in the spring, rewrote it in August...
...seventy million fewer people today in such plight than there were twenty years ago. The eventual solution of the problem must come either from a gradual adjustment of claims by impartial plebiscites or from the setting up of absolute equality of races within a nation. Yet Hitler's recent Czechoslovakian move tends away from rather than towards a solution...