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...forces were at the gates of Warsaw. Budenny was ordered to strike at Warsaw from the southeast, to be in on a well-timed kill. Recklessly Budenny disobeyed orders, turned aside to attack Lwow. When he finally did wheel toward Warsaw it was too late. Under Maxime Weygand and Josef Pilsudski the Poles smashed Tukhachevsky's force and then, separately, Budenny's. It later turned out that Budenny, with no understanding whatsoever of the whole plan, had "wanted to take Lwów before Tukhachevsky could take Warsaw...
...against the saboteurs of the Skoda munitions works and other Czech industries. Hitler's chief executioner, cold, bloody Reinhard Heydrich, was in Berlin reporting his accomplishments. Berlin admitted that his assistants accomplished 123 executions during the week. Among those rushed to the wall of death were Czech Generals Josef Bily, Hugo Votja and Franz Horacek, retired Generals Michael Dolezal and Josef Svatek, bald, pale Otokar Klapka, whom the Nazis had appointed Mayor of Prague. Deputy Premier Jaroslav Krejci was arrested, as were Minister of the Interior General Joseph Jezek and former Minister of Communications Dr. George Havelka. Berlin said...
Because of the strike Reich Commissioner Josef Terboven decreed a state of emergency and clamped Oslo under martial law. Oslo's German police chief, Wilhelm Rediess, implemented the declaration by authorizing death penalties, confiscation of property. Oslo was placed under a 7 o'clock curfew, transportation was stopped after that hour, public meetings were prohibited, wireless sets seized, dancing forbidden. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides and Salvation Army organizations dissolved...
Although Dvorak accepted honors from Emperor Franz Josef (he was the first musician to sit in the window-dressy Austrian House of Lords), he kept his Czechishness. A family man whose only hobby seems to have been looking at ships and locomotives, Dvorak spent three years in the U.S. in the 1890s, made $15,000 a year as head of Manhattan's National Conservatory of Music, but was homesick. The composer's happiest months were spent vacationing in the Czech village of Spillville, Iowa, where he played the organ in church...
Gauleiter Josef Terboven announced that Norway was hereafter in a "state of emergency." This decree empowered him to pass sentences of death "to preserve public order." All radios in the coastal regions nearest Britain were ordered delivered to the German authorities. Herr Terboven rumbled ominously that Norway had reached a "decisive phase...