Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second hero was the late Father Andreas Hlinka, founder of the Slovak autonomous movement. His followers last week prepared Masaryk's eggs for scrambling. Members of the pro-Nazi, anti-Czech, anti-Jewish Hlinka Guard have long plotted, through the semi-autonomous Slovak Cabinet, to proclaim Slovakia's independence, relying on Germany's support and subsequent protection. To a Germany which frankly wants to get a foothold in Carpatho-Ukraine, right next to Slovakia, such a plan smelled good. In any case, the weaker Czecho-Slovakia becomes the more potent becomes Germany's dominion over...
Much of Crisis is thus devoted to shots of urchins playing in summer camps, Jewish refugees from Germany and Austria saying "Thank you" to Czech benefactors, orators addressing crowds. Nonetheless, pieced together with considerable skill and photographically first-rate, the picture is a reasonably coherent photographic appendix to last summer's headlines. Effective sequence: Czech soldiers lugging cannon up a mountainside for the defense that was never undertaken...
...clear," Potter continued, "that Bohemia as an entity with an individual culture is gone." Attacking the question from the historical angle Potter showed that it was originally under Germanic influence but that it had evolved a culture of its own which had developed on strongly anti-German lines. The Czech attitude in the September crisis is an indication of their stubborn character but now that stubbornness seems useless...
...addition, Sir John revealed that one of the civilian defense deficiencies complained of during the Czech Crisis, the fact that there were no gas masks for children under five years of age, had been remedied. Special masks for toddlers under two have been ordered and a similar respirator adapted for children up to five is being developed...
Practically applied in Danger Signal, the Adler-Bottome theory cross-fertilizes the problem novel and the detective story. In a bloodless climax the heroine psychologist (a Czech lecturing in London) extracts inferiority complexes and egocentricities like a dentist tweaking out a rotten tooth. Author Bottome patently exaggerates the omniscience of the psychologist, the tractability of her patients, shows that a novel about psychology and a good psychological novel are by no means the same thing...