Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CzechoSlovak Crisis she did yeoman service for the Nazi campaign. When Mr. Chamberlain sent Lord Runciman to gather impressions of conditions in Czecho-Slovakia, Princess Stephanie hurried to the Sudetenland castle of Prince Max Hohenlohe where the British "mediator" was entertained. In London during crucial weeks of the Czech Crisis, she was able to arrange the secret meetings between Man Friday Wiedemann and top-ranking Britons. A frequent hostess to Captain Wiedemann, the Princess squired him about in influential circles in the U. S. last year when he visited the country unofficially...
Bird No. 1: a serious labor shortage in Nazi Germany, caused by the gigantic public works program and feverish rearmament efforts. Bird No. 2: serious unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia, caused by German grab of Czech industrial areas and the pre-Munich influx of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland. Last week Prague and Berlin devised a stone to kill both birds: a plan to send 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed Czech workmen to Germany. Time: this spring...
...capitalism" and to whom any alliance with Soviet Russia was anathema. They professed to be impressed by accounts of German air superiority, stressed the purely defensive value of French fortifications, discounted Soviet military power, the French Army's will to fight. They said nothing about the well-trained Czech Army, Britain's undisputed control of the seas, the unfinished condition of Germany's defenses, German insufficiency in raw materials, German internal discontent, the German Army's revulsion at the thought...
...went on sporadically through the night and most of the next day. Czech shells plumped into a Munkacs church, two theatres, a hotel. Seven Hungarians were killed, nine wounded. Four Czech soldiers were also wounded before the invaders withdrew...
This week Czech forces sent another barrage of incendiary shells into the Hungarian village of Nagygejoce, near Ugnvar, 25 miles west of Munkacs. Hungarian and Czech army delegates finally arranged a truce, agreed to exchange prisoners and captured materials...