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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From President Roosevelt to the State Department's scrub ladies, Washington officials last week had their labors interrupted by the rape of Czecho-Slovakia (see p. 16). The scrub ladies once more found their nocturnal activities impeded by anxious young men decoding dispatches from London, Prague, Paris, Berlin, Bucharest. The President had to decide what to say, what to do. Since he must not say in public what he really thinks of Herr Hitler, his most important statement of the week was made through the icy Bostonian lips of Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...steely grey Slovak of 56, who during the Great War fought valiantly with the Russian armies* and under General Allenby in Palestine. He had just been talking to the State Department, which next day had something of its own to say about the rape of Czecho slovakia (see p. 11). He told Dr. Thomsen with urbanity that he ordinarily took no orders from Adolf Hitler...
...Czecho slovakia, an exporting country, had $80,000,000 in gold in its national bank, enough to offset Germany's adverse trade balance for a few months, and about two and a half times that much in foreign assets and ex change, which Germany may not get (see p. 18). This loot was small but enough to make any pinched-bellied dictator's fingers itch...
...spoken of the intense activity in Prague of German Gestapo agents. For a year young men like those who had circulated around Vienna in 1937-38, dropping a word here and a word there for Naziism, had been active in Prague. The swift, smooth pace of the occupation (see p. 17) showed that the Germans had made organized preparations for it well in advance...
Rumanians well know the "consequences." German troops could either march in through the mountainous districts of the Carpatho-Ukraine seized by Hungary last week (see p. 20) or Germany could back Hungary in an attempt to seize Transylvania, which until the Treaty of Trianon was a part of Hungary. Better yet, Germany could grab off Hungary first and then move into Rumania herself...