Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, Jan Masaryk, son of the late Czecho-Slovakia's late "George Washington," Dr. Thomas Masaryk, last week declared: "Now he [Hitler] has gobbled up the most indigestible people in the world. They will give him a bellyache." In Washington, Nazis got their first taste of Czech indigestibility...
Politely but without a heel-click, Colonel Hurban, who speaks fluent German, asked his callers to speak English. They demurred. He insisted. Lest he burst into Czech, the secretaries finally, in stumbling English, said they had a telegram from Berlin. Colonel Hurban asked to see it. Embarrassed, they said it was "secret" but read him part. Graciously, as if they had been children, Minister Hurban explained to them that until he had written orders from President Hacha in Prague, and as surance that such orders were constitutionally issued, he could turn his legation over to no one. Red-faced...
Thus the nearly extinct Czecho-Slovak Republic still survived last week with a 50-ft. front on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue. Czech consuls in other U. S. cities followed Minister Hurban's lead. In Minneapolis, Consul Charles E. Proschek said: "I have never received any instructions or training in rules of etiquette on what to do when confronted with international bandits. . . . They can go back whence they came with my compliments." The State Department soon made known that it would in no way assist the Nazis to seize the Czech Government's property...
...also true that the Czech Government had shown signs of disobedience to the Nazis. A crackdown, figured the Führer, would do much to admonish Poland and Hungary which have-in the former by rioting, in the latter by upsetting a cabinet-recently shown themselves unsympathetic to Nazidom...
What the British could do to harry Hitler at once they did. Like the French they recalled their Ambassador "for a report." Like the U. S., they refused to recognize the seizure and thus locked up an estimated $60,000,000 worth of Czech funds in London. The U. S., in addition, set up a 25% higher tariff wall against the products of Greater Germany (see p.11...