Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Therefore the current Soviet policy is based on the creation of a cordon sanitaire in reverse in Eastern and Central Europe. The small states in this cordon, mutually not too friendly, would be tied to Moscow by agreements like the Soviet-Czech pact. Any overall federation in this area would form a large unit which might become a menace to Russia; that is why Moscow has opposed any Balkan, Danubian or Scandinavian federations...
...immense value to the Germans; eleven destroyers put out from French bases to meet and escort it to port. The resultant fight involved a perfect cross-section of Allied operations: British warships and U.S., British, Canadian and Czechoslovak airmen. Aircraft dogged the incoming ship relentlessly; a Liberator manned by Czech airmen bombed it and left it sinking. By this time the German destroyers, some 200 miles to the east, had ventured too far. Next morning they were suddenly boxed in by the British light cruisers Glasgow and Enterprise...
Gloom and Room. Technicians noted with gloomy satisfaction that there was a significant difference between the new treaty and the 20-year Anglo-Soviet Alliance of 1942. The British treaty, by its own terms, would be superseded by any overall security pact among the nations. The Czech treaty has no such provision; it is a straight two-way proposition regardless of any general international agreement...
Also devoted to the plight of Europe's children is They Shall Inherit the Earth, by Czech Novelist and Playwright Otto Zoff (John Day; $3). It is written from the relief workers' point of view, with an enthusiastic foreword by Dorothy Canfield Fisher; its greatest lack is the statistics that would give substance to its disconnected case histories and its well-intentioned but sketchy stories of distress among the 100,000,000 children of the Axis-occupied countries. Most shocking question it raises: When Europe's uprooted children grow up, what will they do to a world...
...When Czech President Benes flies to Moscow to sign a 20-year alliance, he may provide real evidence that a Danube Federation is in the making. In such a body, a postwar, pro-Soviet Czecho-Slovakia would have the No. i position. Industrial Austria and Czecho-Slovakia might neatly complement agrarian Hungary, perhaps offer a haven for Rumania and for Croatia & Slovenia if prewar Yugoslavia should not revive. The rest of Southeastern Europe-Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia and Albania-might be encouraged to form a parallel Balkan Federation...