Word: czechoslovakian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factor which works toward preservation of the status quo, he explained, is the strong French cabinet formed from the right and center. "I do not expect any break at the Czechoslovakian frontier as long as the present cabinet is in power in France," he declared...
...Prince Franz Paul I, ruler of the 65-square-mile principality of Liechtenstein, which snuggles up in the central Alps between Switzerland and Greater Germany (see map), has not visited his tiny nation for five years. He has run his Government by long-distance from Vienna and his Czechoslovakian estates. Last week the aged ruler suddenly abdicated at his hunting lodge near Semmering, Austria, named his 31-year-old third cousin, mustached, dapper Prince Franz Joseph, as his successor...
Czechoslovakia is today a lumpy sausage of democracy completely surrounded by authoritarian regimes. Last week a book* was published which made the striking claim that the skin holding the Czechoslovakian sausage together is its school system. Stamped on that skin is the label: Made...
Intuitive Adolf Hitler is feminine in never wanting a fight, but only victory. It would hardly have occurred to a masculine dictator, such as Mussolini, simply to ask the Czechoslovakian Government through intermediaries last week to tear up their military alliance with the Soviet Government, yet this was just what the Führer did, according to officials at Prague...
...stood on the side of the road. 'If an officer tries to go back, shoot your pistol,' a Spanish colonel instructed one of the Germans. The internationals were coming up. We watched fieldpieces hauled in among the olive trees and put into position. Near the road the Czechoslovakian crew of an antiaircraft battery was working quickly and efficiently...