Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was trouble in another of Europe's traditional trouble spots-Teschen, whose southwestern part was once Czechoslovakia's Pittsburgh. Hitler awarded it to Poland after Munich. Now the Czechs want Teschen back. The Poles want to keep it. Cried Poland's Premier Edward Osubka-Morawski: all 852 square miles of the Teschen area must belong to Poland if ethnography means anything. Cried Czech Trade Minister Hubert Ripka: Even if the Polish claim were true, Teschen is so important to Czechoslovakia economically that she would not agree to settlement on an ethnographical basis. "If the Allies decide...
Charlie Chaplin, in the midst of thorny court troubles at home, suddenly got a red, red rose from abroad. Russian and Czech cinemen sent him a telegram expressing "deep respect to you . . . who . . . have always defended the principles of humanism...
Died. Emil Hacha, 73, collaborationist President of Czechoslovakia after the Nazi-forced resignation of Edward Benes in 1938, puppet president of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia during the German occupation, No. Ι on the Czech list of accused traitors; in a Prague prison hospital...
What the once internationalist Czechs do want: "Czechoslovakia for Czechoslovakians." The Sudeten treachery, the Munich agreement, German encroachment and finally six years of German occupation have "burned with corrosive fire into the Czech soul and turned . . . their European patriotism into flaming nationalism...
...Russian news reports suggested that another development of immense importance to Czechoslovakia was up for discussion in Moscow: the Communist. Social Democratic and People's Socialist parties had formed a Czech "National Bloc" on the familiar "National Front" pattern of other countries in Russia's sphere. Czech labor unions, professional workers and technicians, farmers, and intellectuals were to be united in centrally controlled organizations allied with the "National Bloc." If liberation was bringing freedom to the Czechs, it was of a kind unknown to them before the old freedom collapsed...