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...jittery Prague, President Eduard Benes' nephew, Jiri Benes, front-paged an editorial declaring blandly that Neville Chamberlain has sent Lord Runciman to act as a "witness for the Crown" in case war begins at the Czechoslovak border. Its conclusion...
Konrad Henlein, the Sudeten German Führer, sent only subordinates to confer with the Viscount. The consideration with which he treated them was considered spectacular. Lord Runciman's program included 20-minute formal calls on President Eduard Benes and Premier Milan Hodza; two lengthy conferences with henchmen of Henlein, the second lasting until 2 a. m.; next day lunch with...
...captain can legally perform wedding ceremonies outside the three-mile limit. From Los Angeles Eduard I. von Glatte flew his fiancée, Jane Webster, three miles up into the air, got the airliner's Captain Richard Bowman to marry them while Mrs. Bowman and her five children witnessed. After they had flown to Michigan for a honeymoon, they were informed that Los Angeles authorities did not consider the wedding legal. The quasi-newlyweds returned to California, decided to bring suit to prove that an air marriage was as good as a sea marriage...
Tabulated last week, the figures for the period from May 21 to July 1 showed that Berlin's Central Broadcasting Station of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (German Broadcasting Co.) put on the air 922 attacks on the Czechoslovak republic, 194 criticisms of President Eduard Benes or the Prague government, attacked Czechoslovak officials and law courts 172 times, insulted the honor of the Czechoslovak Army 106 times. Henlein party-propaganda broadcasts from German stations during the same period were clocked at 336, the declaration that Communists rule Czechoslovakia...
...Rumania against Hungary, a defensive alliance with France against Germany and an alliance with Russia that is predicated on France carrying out her obligations to Czechoslovakia in case Germany attacks. Czechoslovakians do not let visitors forget that they are blood cousins of the great Slav state of Russia. Eduard Benes naturally hopes for fulfillment of the pacts he drew up. But Yugoslavia and Rumania are gravitating closer to the Rome-Berlin axis, French Rightists openly predict that France will never come to the little nation's aid and even French Socialists and Radical Socialists are lukewarm to the pledge...