Word: laterally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Germany swallowed Austria last year, the Bank of England played ball with the Nazis, obligingly turned over to them the gold it held in the name of the Austrian banks. Later, British owners of Austrian bonds had trouble getting their money. When last March the Germans goose-stepped into Czecho-Slovakia, the British Government quickly rushed through Parliament a bill forbidding British banks to transfer former Czech gold and credits (estimated as high as $100,000,000) to the new masters of Prague. Devised to protect British creditors, this measure pleased Britons more as a means of preventing...
...night last week German Police Sergeant Wilhelm Kniest was shot dead in a Kladno street, and the Nazis took advantage of the incident to throw their weight around. (Several days later a Czech policeman was killed at Nachod, 80 miles northeast of Prague. There the Nazis ordered only a "strict inquiry.") An official (German) version of the Kladno killing was that the sergeant was shot by a cowardly, unknown Czech. An unofficial (Czech) version was that he had been shot by another German policeman after a drunken brawl over a girl's favors. In Nachod, Germans claimed the Czech...
...virtual martial law was clamped down. Doors and windows of all houses had to be closed between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. Theatres, schools and public halls were closed. The Czech police were mustered in the public square, stripped of their arms and imprisoned for "nonfulfillment of duty." Later they were released and sent to other parts of the country. Heavily armed German patrols roamed the streets with orders to fire^at open windows. Day later, 2,000 reinforcements with machine guns, armored cars and field kitchens deployed in the market place and began-a house-to-house search...
Meanwhile, Nazis held a memorial service in Kladno for Sergeant Kniest, before giving him a martyr's funeral this week in Leipzig, his home city. Adolf Hitler sent a wreath. Kladno was first given 24 hours, later 48, to produce the killer or else suffer "further measures." The Czech Unity Party, only Czech political organization still existent in Bohemia and Moravia, declared such "acts of force are a crime against the entire Czech people," called upon Czechs to cooperate in apprehending the slayer. The Czechs wanted it understood that murder was not in their plans. While Kladno wondered what...
Arrested by Japanese military officials in Kalgan and held on a charge of spying, was Lieut. Colonel Christopher R. Spear, Military Attache of the British Embassy in China. Also arrested was Lieut. John Cooper who went to aid him. Later Lieut. Cooper was released after signing this statement...