Word: missions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chust, Ruthenia's capital, a German mission arrived recently to form a "Ukrainian Free Corps" on the order of the Austrian Free Corps before Fuhrer Hitler absorbed Austria, and the Sudeten Free Corps before the Sudetenland was "freed." The corps's job will doubtless be 1) to undermine the civil authority of Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union in Ukrainian districts, 2) to work up a separatist movement, 3) to create incidents which will eventually make "necessary" Ruthenia's-i.e., Nazi Germany's-intervention to restore "law and order," and liberate Ukrainian kinsfolk...
Last week Czecho-Slovaks, busy making the best of their abbreviated state, stopped work for a moment to take melancholy leave of General Louis Eugène Faucher, for 20 years head of France's military mission in the former Czechoslovakia. During the recent crisis General Faucher resigned his commission in the French Army, offered his services to President Benes. Reviewing a guard of honor at the station in Prague, the General wept as he kissed the flag of the country whose army he had so largely created himself. As his train pulled out, a military band played...
...general, no foreign diplomat on a big mission to Paris ever had a thinner time than Herr Ribbentrop. There was no public acclamation for him. The police scarcely let his top hat come into public view. So numerous were the guards around the Arc de Triomphe when Herr Ribbentrop, wearing the German Iron Cross, laid a swastika-decorated wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier, that few saw this unprecedented ceremony...
...cricket to criticize the Chamberlain Government while in this country. But the British Government had bestowed their blessings on Mr. Eden's seven-day visit to the U. S. (which was also his first), and many were the rumors in Britain last week that, if his U. S. mission was a success, Anthony Eden might return to the Cabinet. More accurately, the Cabinet might return to Mr. Eden...
Cure-All. Clarence William Hazelett is a taciturn man with a small metal works and a large mission. His Hazelett Metals Co. of Greenwich, Conn. licenses a process and sells machinery for making molten metal directly into sheets (instead of rolling sheets from ingots). His mission is promoting the doctrine that all the nation's economic ills can be cured by incentive taxation...