Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week while Germany was grabbing Bohemia and Moravia by the scruffs of their necks and whistling Slovakia home, the little Kingdom of Hungary was being allowed to make a grab of its own in the Carpatho-Ukraine, the easternmost prov ince of now extinct Czecho-Slovakia. Long have Poland and Hungary wanted a common border for protection against Germany. Last fall, when Czecho-Slovakia was amputated, they almost got it. Last week, when Adolf Hitler wiped Czechoslovakia off the map, they...
...fall without a struggle. Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four days to occupy the territory, in contrast to the mere eight or ten hours it took the Germans to seize
...answers largely depend on the character of Francisco Franco, and last week as Spain was about to begin another chapter in her long history, the plump, enigmatic little man who will boss it-strangely colorless for a Spaniard-and the men with whom he has surrounded himself attracted the world's curiosity...
Sweden's Government debated long over the proffered gift, then decided to thank the General just the same but not accept his offer. Whereupon General Goring became so enraged that the only thing that averted a complete diplomatic break was a hasty trip to Berlin by no less a person than King Gustav V, who pinned on Herr Göring's bulging chest the highest Swedish military honor-the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword...
When he heard about the accident, Germany's Field Marshal Hermann Göring, who, long before he got too paunchy to slide into a cockpit, served as a commercial pilot in Sweden, offered to make Sweden a present of a new, fully-equipped air-ambulance worth 450,000 crowns ($108,000). The plane was to be named for Göring's dead first wife Karin, sister of the wife of a Swede named Dr. Nils Silfversköld (Silver Shield...