Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...armament firms, mines, smelters and foundries. As a bank director he finances armament loans. As the President of Union Europeenne Industriale et Financiere he has his finger in 230 armament and allied enterprises outside France. Chief of these is Czechoslovakia's Skoda. In this firm French, German, Czech and Polish directors come together in the friendliest spirit to discuss the problems of increasing European consumption of armaments...
...Minister of War in Austria's first Republican Cabinet and ancient adversary of her Catholic Chancellor, the late great Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. The New York Times's sympathetic G. E. R. Gedye found him safe at Bratislava, just over the Czechoslovak border, guarded by a cordon of Czech Socialists from attempted assassination. A ricocheted bullet in his left eye left Dr. Deutsch so blind that he could only see the outline of objects. He was sick, exhausted, but eager to talk...
...exiled Nazis ready to march back into Austria with weapons from German arsenals whenever Adolf Hitler should nod nis head. Along the Czechoslovak frontier approximately 35,000 men, with the heaviest siege guns in Central Europe, were ready for the first nation that started something. Viennese knew that the Czech frontier is only 25 miles away, that one of the great Skoda guns could blow the steeple off St. Stephen's without crossing the border. In Jugoslavia to the south whole divisions of Serbian troops had been moved up into Slovenia and Croatia and set to patrolling the frontier...
...unmoved at offers to trade their dull commercial comfort for the hysterical frenzy of the Third Reich, but last week they got mad. At Ramsen on the German border three Nazi toughs crossed the Swiss frontier, beat off a Swiss customs guard before he could summon aid, seized a Czech citizen named Hermann Weber, dragged him screaming into Germany. There have been a series of similar incidents. Switzerland's unvarying foreign policy (MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS) has kept all Swiss papers from any overt criticisms of the Hitler Government but last week even the staid, conservative La Suisse rapped...
Again bloodhounds were called out. Yelping mournfully, they led perspiring Czech police to the cabin of a notorious poacher, Max Epker, member of a Nazi trade union. When they got there the cabin was bare. Czech authorities had to content themselves with arresting eleven assorted Nazis and, like Austria, like Switzerland, doubling their frontier guards...