Word: gablonz
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...pillage that had accompanied the advance of Soviet forces, they were trying to find safety behind American and British lines. The horror stories, told and retold and retold again, needed no Nazi propaganda to spread like wildfire. They certainly were heard in the town in which we lived: Gablonz to Germans, Jablonec nad Nisou to Czechs, in what was then known as the Sudetenland, a border territory with a mixed German-Czech population that Hitler had grabbed from Czechoslovakia...
...Budapest, to spare the country from the worst horrors of civil war"* Nevertheless much blood was spilled. It is significant that the staunchest defense of Karolyi comes from one of his Bolshevik brethern, Professor Jaszi-Jakabo-vics in a most unreliable book on the revolution. Karolyi fled to Gablonz in Czecho-Slovakia after his resignation, thence to Austria, and on to Italy, whence he was forced to go to Yugo-Slavia. Now he is about to settle in Canada...
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