Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the President proceeded to draft his second appeal to Adolf Hitler, urging not only continued negotiation of the German-Czech issues but also a broad discussion, among all the powers directly interested, of questions correlated with those issues. Said President to Fuhrer: "Hundreds of millions throughout the world would recognize your action as an outstanding historic service to all humanity...
...following a bad policy. At the very worst he is merely postponing a European war, and no one can deny that a temporary peace is better than no peace at all. The tremendous degradation following a war like the last brings more misery than the suffering of the Czech nation, England's loss of prestige, and the enlargement of a fascist country...
...bang-up job of bringing the throbbing reality of it to listeners. NBC, CBS, MBS constantly carried crisis news in spite of a magnetic storm which marred short-wave reception for three days and a hurricane which broke power and communication lines, flooded transmitters. The announcement of the Czech reply to the Chamberlain-Daladier ultimatum was read to CBS listeners by Maurice Hindus eleven minutes before any other U. S. agency got the news. NBC and CBS stayed on the air all night keeping U. S. listeners in touch with Europe...
When the voice of Columbia's Hindus told of going to a Prague dinner party and finding his fellow guests carrying gas masks, the effect was one unattainable in written journalism. Equally stirring was the account of the Czech mobilization from the New York Herald Tribune's Walter B. Kerr. As Mr. Kerr spoke his grave words, offstage noise was made by the drone of gathering airplanes...
They are Doctor F. Deutsch, of the University of Prague, a Sudeten German, but anti-Nazi and loyal to the democracy, and Jacob A. De Haas, William Ziegler Professor of International Relationships. Both are students of the economic and political background of the greater German movement and the Czech problem. Deutsch was the Czech delegate to the World Youth Congress last summer...