Word: karlsbad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sudeten German Party. Lord Runciman wrote that in his opinion and "in the opinion of the more responsible Sudeten leaders" the concessions offered on September 6 as the famed Plan No. 4 could be considered virtually full acceptance of those demands which provoked the Czechoslovak crisis, namely the Karlsbad Demands made last April 24 by the Sudeten "Little Führer," Konrad Henlein...
...Nazis who attempt to lead the 3,200,000 Germans in the Republic of Czechoslovakia (pop. 15,000,000), became highly truculent last week. Their Führer, obedient Konrad Henlein, fresh from conferences in Berlin with Göring and other Nazi bigwigs, staged a mass meeting in Karlsbad, the famed spa, delivered a series of ultimatums to Czechoslovak President Eduard Benes so outrageous as to shock even the now violently pro-German London Times...
Joyous Mr. Astor decided to buy an 80-ft. yacht and to call his firstborn, if a male, ''plain William." Joyous Count Haugwitz was felicitated at Karlsbad by a royal wire from his Danish sovereign King Christian X. Anticipating an event far more momentous and expensive than those that overjoyed the U. S. and Danish husbands, joyous Emperor Hirohito set in motion the ponderous, costly mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled...
...great & virtuous Yen Hsi-shan, long "model Governor" of Shansi Province, now defeated, selfexiled. Some of the "attendants" said that Marshal Yen yearns to tour first Japan, next the U. S., will shortly do so. Others said he will settle down at Beppu, Japan's Karlsbad, lately the refuge of that other Chinese exile, notorious Marshal Chang Tsung-chang, so brazen that he calls his attendants "concubines" and worse (TIME...