Word: czechoslovakians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops into "summer barracks" nearer the border. He had just Nazified Austria while French and Germans stood by with open mouths. Their mouths were still open when the Reich's soldiers began ominously moving around on their side of the Czechoslovak border. In this crisis the Czechoslovakian Republic, the keystone of democracy in central Europe, marched 400,000 troops up to its side of the border and the first German over the line would have been a dead German. Thus that crisis was solved, and little Eduard Benes was heard to observe that the machinery of a democratic state...
...natal National Council. The Allies were more than willing to foster a separatist movement in the heart of the Central Powers, and in 1917 Professor Masaryk set out for the U. S., there convinced Professor Wilson of the Czech case. Washington, D. C. is to the Czechoslovakian Republic what Philadelphia, Pa. is to the U. S. Republic. In Washington, in October 1918, after conferences with U. S. Czechs and Slovaks, Masaryk issued a Declaration of Independence for the new Czech-Slovak state and almost immediately after the Armistice a newly-convened National Assembly gratefully elected him the nation...
...spike Hitler's handiest excuse for an invasion. Father Andreas Hlinka, leader of a Slovak ecclesiastical party, has demanded autonomy for his racial group, but his party polled less votes than in previous years in the recent municipal elections. Other minority protests pull even less weight. But one Czechoslovakian minority problem the world will not forget in a hurry is that of the Sudetens...
...near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral for the new "Nazi martyrs." Thousands of Sudetens poured into the 17th-Century town on autos, bicycles and afoot for the ceremony. Leaning backward to prevent another "incident," the Czechoslovakian Government ordered troops in the vicinity confined to barracks, even as far as to allow Henlein's "illegal" white-shirted Storm Troopers to assume police duties...
...Berlin and the grave view His Majesty's Government at home took of the situation -in striking contrast to what was done when Austria was being occupied-indi-cated that the British were determined to prevent Herr Hitler's use of armed force to settle the Czechoslovakian Question...