Word: hrer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Propaganda Funeral. Not so light-hearted were Czechs, although they hoped that the German-Czech crisis had passed. The conversation between Führer Konrad Henlein of the Sudeten (Nazi) party, which claims support of 90% of Czechoslovakia's Sudeten German minority, and Premier Milan Hodza on settlement of the Sudeten grievances, came to a halt last week as Führer Henlein journeyed to Cheb (pop. 31,500), two miles from the German border (see map, p. 15), and near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral...
Before 45,000 cheering Sudetens in the market square, bespectacled, 40-year-old Führer Henlein, onetime gymnasium instructor whose figure is now assuming Göring-like proportions, mounted a black-draped podium and addressed the coffins, covered with red flags bearing the SdP insignia of the Sudetendeutsch Partei. "Fatal bullets struck you, even though you were innocent," he cried. "May your sacrifice be a guiding sign for us." Throaty shouts of "Seig Heil" punctuated the speech of Henlein's stooge, Deputy Karl Hermann Frank, as he defiantly used words from the forbidden Nazi Horst Wessel hymn...
...elections over, tension eased and the prospects of Cheb becoming a second Sarajevo faded this week. Observers were agreed, however, that this last week had hammered home to Adolf Hitler two things: 1) President Benes' demonstration of force effectively reminded the Führer that Czechoslovakia was not impotent Austria; 2) British activity in Berlin and the grave view His Majesty's Government at home took of the situation -in striking contrast to what was done when Austria was being occupied-indi-cated that the British were determined to prevent Herr Hitler's use of armed force...
With two more dynamite-loaded elections coming off, there was every indication last week that President Benes and Premier Milan Hodza will go the limit in an effort to satisfy the minority demands, short of granting actual autonomy. Last week, Hitler's stooge, Sudeten Führer Konrad Henlein was in Vienna conferring with German-Austrian Nazi leaders when Benes cracked down on his followers. All previous attempts to bring Führer Henlein to the conference table for a settlement of minority demands have been futile, but to nerve-frazzled Czechs last week came the reassuring news that...
...town of As (pronounced Ash) lives Sudeten German Nazi No. 1, sharp-nosed, hard-lipped Führer Konrad Henlein. He secretly left As by motorcar last week, sped over the Czechoslovak frontier into Germany, entered a waiting plane and presently alighted on the asphalt of London's great airport Croydon. Several times before Herr Henlein has visited England. Not long ago he pledged to British friends that he was "really democratic at heart," said he would never make his party openly Nazi. He did so a few weeks ago. Last fortnight Führer Henlein denounced his democratic...