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Last week while Germany was grabbing Bohemia and Moravia by the scruffs of their necks and whistling Slovakia home, the little Kingdom of Hungary was being allowed to make a grab of its own in the Carpatho-Ukraine, the easternmost prov ince of now extinct Czecho-Slovakia. Long have Poland and Hungary wanted a common border for protection against Germany. Last fall, when Czecho-Slovakia was amputated, they almost got it. Last week, when Adolf Hitler wiped Czechoslovakia off the map, they...
...tiny (210 sq. mi.), windy, rocky island called Guam was acquired by the U. S. in 1898 as part of its Spanish conquest. With the liberation of the Philippine Commonwealth, it will become the easternmost U. S. possession, 3,300 mi. beyond Hawaii, only 1,500 mi. from Manila. Regardless of the Philippines' status as a trade protectorate (which Franklin Roosevelt has recommended extending beyond 1946 to 1960), the Navy has pictured Guam, with its potentially fine harbor of Apra, as a likely Pacific outpost. If heavily fortified it would move the U. S. first line of Pacific defense...
After Munich, Ruthenia, easternmost district of Czecho-Slovakia, now called the Carpatho-Ukraine, became an "autonomous" region with only loose connections with Prague but with very definite though unofficial links with Berlin. Mountainous and largely barren, the Carpatho-Ukraine was obviously expected to produce for Germany political rather than economic results. The Nazis' Ukrainian blueprints nominated it as the generating centre for a movement to "liberate" all Ukrainians from their present Polish, Rumanian and Russian masters and bring them under the benevolent protection of Führer Hitler...
Nazi agents, by intrigue and radio propagandizing, have agitated for a Greater Ukraine ever since Munich. Centre of the campaign is Carpatho-Ukraine, easternmost district of Nazified Czecho-Slovakia. Hungary and Poland also covet the strategic Carpatho-Ukraine, and there have been border fights on both frontiers of the territory...
...with II Duce. Last week II Duce took occasion to renounce publicly his end of the pact, hoping that a new African settlement, based on the Wartime promises, can be wrung from France and Britain. He wants most the Addis Ababa-Djibouti rail line of which all but the easternmost 50 miles runs through what is now Italian territory, on which practically all the traffic is Italian. The only way the colony can get to the sea without using the line is by way of the new but much longer highway from Addis Ababa to Assawa (not to be confused...