Word: polished
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Four, instead of settling the Polish and Hungarian minority questions in Czechoslovakia at Munich, left these open for 90 days pending action by the three little countries themselves (see p. 18), and only later if necessary will the Big Four settle that hash. The Munich pact concludes: "When the question of the Polish and Hungarian minorities in Czechoslovakia has been settled, Germany and Italy, for their part, will give a guarantee to Czechoslovakia...
...Warsaw and in Budapest last week the overwhelming will of two highly emotional peoples to grab slices of Czechoslovakia was such that Poland and Hungary would certainly have overthrown their Cabinets, had not Polish Marshal Edward Smigly-Rydz and Hungarian Regent Nicholas Horthy been 100% in accord with popular opinion. A slice of defeated Hungary containing 1,000,000 Magyars was carved off in 1920 by the Allies to help make up Czechoslovakia...
...Teschen area in Poland, with about 200,000 population. Thus, last week Poles and Hungarians did not regard Czechoslovakia as a virgin land which Germany had just been permitted to rape, did not regard themselves as rapists eager for a second and third outrage. On the contrary, fervent Polish and Hungarian crowds shrieked in the streets for what they were convinced was "Justice!'' Poland, powerfully armed, last week had 500,000 of her 1,500,000 soldiers lined up to invade Czechoslovakia. The threat of Joseph Stalin fortnight ago that the Red Army would march if Poland committed...
...While I sympathize with all the nationalities of Czechoslovakia, I am speaking here only for the oppressed Germans ..." Herr Hitler went on, thus putting a damper on rumors that he had faced Mr. Chamberlain with Polish and Hungarian claims as well as Germany's. "Upon the threats of Great Britain and France, Herr Benes finally admitted that the Sudetenland must be ceded to Germany," continued Hitler. "The play is now ended. . . . THE FINAL GERMAN DEMANDS CONTAIN ONLY WHAT BENES HAS ALREADY PROMISED...
Stalin Jumps In. Not a word did President Benes reply to demands made last week by Poland and Hungary that Czechoslovakia must yield her Polish and Hungarian minority districts to them, since she had promised to yield the Sudetenland to Germany. Dr. Benes left it to high-minded, sad-faced Viscount Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, to tell Polish and Hungarian envoys in London at two extremely angry sessions that they could not have what Germany could wrest by her Might; instead, they must delay their claims until a later date. The psychologist of Prague correctly judged that this would...