Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disapproval of Dictator Hitler (which Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull had helped to generate), and sympathy for Czechoslovakia as the innocent underdog, underwent a transformation. Nobody wanted the U. S. to go to war, but many were already cheering, "Go to it, Czechoslovakia!'' At pro-Czech mass meetings this feeling welled up. Pacifists like Thomas Mann and "realists" like Columnist Dorothy Thompson were that very day whipping it up. Episcopal Bishop Manning of New York was saying: "All men of sense know that there is a point beyond which injustice and aggression cannot be permitted...
BERLIN-Nazi Minister of Propaganda Paul J. Goebbels, tonight declared that the Reich would never "back down" on the Czech problem. Goebbels, addressing a crowd estimated at 175,000, shouted-"We declare categorically and irrevocably that we want the Sudeten Germans and their land returned to us. We will get it, one way or another." Goebbels spoke as Bitier was speeding southward to Munich to confer with the Premiers of Britian, France and Italy on new proposals for solving the Czech crisis peacefully...
BERLIN, Wednesday, Sept. 28--UP--It was reported without confirmation today that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has decided to order his armies to march on Czechosolavakia immediately if there is no prospect of a peaceful solution of the Czech crisis by 2 P.M. today--8 A.M., E.S.T. The report indicated that the Nazi Fuehrer, angered by the tone of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech in London last night, has decided to strike quickly...
...itself was pouring forth war materials on a twenty-four hour a day basis. It was near here, that several Sudetens aired their minds on their side of the picture. "We don't necessarily want to become part of Germany," said one, "all we want is local autonomy. The Czechs won't let us do anything. We can't hold government posts and they force us to learn Czech in school, although we only speak German...
...area of no square miles, no part of the present Czechoslovak Republic ever belonged to Imperial Germany. Konrad Henlein and over 99% of all Sudeten Germans alive before the Republic was founded were born subjects of the Habsburg Kaiser, not the Hohenzollern. Henlein's mother was a Czech, but to him, as to Austrian-born Hitler, there has never been any doubt that Germany is "home...