Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Hurban, who speaks fluent German, asked his callers to speak English. They demurred. He insisted. Lest he burst into Czech, the secretaries finally, in stumbling English, said they had a telegram from Berlin. Colonel Hurban asked to see it. Embarrassed, they said it was "secret" but read him part. Graciously, as if they had been children, Minister Hurban explained to them that until he had written orders from President Hacha in Prague, and as surance that such orders were constitutionally issued, he could turn his legation over to no one. Red-faced, the Nazi secretaries stomped down the steps...
...Both sides," it read, "unanimously expressed the conviction that the aim must be to assure calm, order and peace in this part of Central Europe. The Czechoslovak State President . . . trustfully laid the fate of the Czech people and country into the hands of the Führer of the German Reich...
...said the Führer, just after marching his troops into the Rhineland in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles in March 1936. Since the Rhineland was technically part of Germany, the militarization did not qualify as an aggrandizement, but was nevertheless a reassertion of pre-War boundaries...
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...
French Poet-Playwright Jean ("Bird-catcher") Cocteau has long been an opium smoker, makes no apology for his vice, once wrote a book about it, regards it as an interesting part of the most interesting personality he knows. When the French police, who had always looked the other way, arrested France's Public Opium Smoker No.1 on charges of opium smoking last summer, wealthy French Elégants suspected that M. Cocteau had got in the habit of giving it to his friends among the poor-sailors, waiters, etc., on whom the authorities, for fear they might turn...