Word: frantisek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Frantisek Nemec, the Czechoslovak Government's newly appointed delegate to liberated territories: "All of us in Occupied Europe were civilized people with national and human pride. Suddenly there came men who assumed the right to kill us like dogs in the street. That has created a very dangerous psychological mood. The people of the liberated countries will be sensitive, suspicious and unbelieving. It will require great understanding on the part of the Allies. . . . I, myself, go with the great joy of a man returning to his home. But I go with fear for what I may find...
...Reason for Sleep. A century ago Czech Frantisek Palacky observed: If the Austrian Empire did not exist, it would have to be invented. Advocates of federation hold that the Danube Valley is a unit, self-sufficient if properly organized, a link between Europe and the Balkans if properly conceived, a bulwark against German expansion if properly designed...