Word: grab
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sole territorial grab last week was Memel, in Lithuania, which was mere chicken feed for the acquisitive Nazis...
...closed Nazi economy of warfare, Czecho-Slovakia can no longer fulfill its economically useful purpose. The same thing happened after Anschluss, but fortunately for the Reich, Czecho-Slovakia, unlike Austria, can feed herself. Best hope for Czech as well as Austrian industry is that Dictator Hitler will soon grab some backward, goods-consuming neighbor States. Otherwise it goes without saying that the Czech standard of living will be lowered, for Germans, in general, far from expecting the Czechs to cost them money, hope to profit from them. Next best hope is that other countries will relax and open their markets...
...than his acts, it came as a great sur prise when, on March 12, 1938, his troops marched into Austria-area: 32,369 square miles; population: 6,760,233; resources: lignite, anthracite, iron, copper, lead, zinc, lumber, small manufactures, agriculture, gold reserve of $46,000,000. After the Austrian grab, the Mehrer said...
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...
...consequences." German troops could either march in through the mountainous districts of the Carpatho-Ukraine seized by Hungary last week (see p. 20) or Germany could back Hungary in an attempt to seize Transylvania, which until the Treaty of Trianon was a part of Hungary. Better yet, Germany could grab off Hungary first and then move into Rumania herself...