Word: hlinka
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hlinka Guardsmen reappeared (armed again) and beside their uniforms were seen those of Slovak Nazi Storm Troopers. Jewish shop windows began to crash. And just as before Munich, the German press reported atrocities: "The Czechs' blood terror against Germans and Slovaks creates an unbearable situation...
Second hero was the late Father Andreas Hlinka, founder of the Slovak autonomous movement. His followers last week prepared Masaryk's eggs for scrambling. Members of the pro-Nazi, anti-Czech, anti-Jewish Hlinka Guard have long plotted, through the semi-autonomous Slovak Cabinet, to proclaim Slovakia's independence, relying on Germany's support and subsequent protection. To a Germany which frankly wants to get a foothold in Carpatho-Ukraine, right next to Slovakia, such a plan smelled good. In any case, the weaker Czecho-Slovakia becomes the more potent becomes Germany's dominion over...
...last week word of the plot reached the central CzechoSlovak Government in Prague. At six next morning the Slovak capital, Bratislava, awoke to find CzechoSlovak gendarmes patrolling the city. The Hlinka Guards were disarmed and interned. From Prague President Dr. Emil Hacha fired Slovakia's Cabinet. Its Premier, Monsignor Dr. Joseph Tiso, was shut up in a Jesuit monastery. Eventually Dr. Karol Sidor, a nationalist and Hlinka Guardsman but not a separatist, was made Premier. Apparently the plot was crushed. But just then ousted Premier Tiso smuggled a telegram out of the monastery...
From Vienna went radio messages to the Slovaks like others once sent to the Sudetens: "Keep quiet and stay by your radios. A historic announcement will be made to you later. . . . Slovaks and Hlinka Guards, the hour will soon strike for which you are waiting...
Sudeten Pains. The third and best reason for the President's optimism is his belief that he can patch up his troublesome minority demands, particularly of the Sudetens, and thus spike Hitler's handiest excuse for an invasion. Father Andreas Hlinka, leader of a Slovak ecclesiastical party, has demanded autonomy for his racial group, but his party polled less votes than in previous years in the recent municipal elections. Other minority protests pull even less weight. But one Czechoslovakian minority problem the world will not forget in a hurry is that of the Sudetens...