Word: ruthenia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acorn from which the Ukrainian oak is expected to grow is the autonomous district of Ruthenia, eastern tip of the German-dominated remainder of Czechoslovakia. Poland tried to coax Hungary into grabbing Ruthenia last month, but Germany effectively vetoed the idea. The 725,000 Ruthenians differ only slightly from Ukrainians in dialect and religion...
Autonomous status for the province of Slovakia was provided by a bill which the Chamber passed and the Senate will approve this week. The Chamber likewise approved an autonomy measure for the third part of the federated Republic, Carpatho-Ukraine (formerly Ruthenia). Meanwhile, Polish and Hungarian bands, still hoping to split the province between their nations, last week crossed its borders and carried on terrorist attacks against the Government...
...Andrej Brody, the first Premier of Ruthenia since it was granted autonomy within the Czechoslovak Republic, was jailed last week for treason. He was charged with taking money from Hungarian agents to advocate the holding in Ruthenia of a plebiscite to decide whether it should go to Hungary...
...British recently have sent confidential emissaries to King Carol and next month His Majesty will make a State visit to King George. Last week Rumania and Yugoslavia were exerting pressure on their neighbor Hungary to keep her from grabbing such a great slice of Slovakia & Ruthenia as would pinch off the whole eastern end of Czechoslovakia. This would give Hungary and Poland a common frontier, would mean that Rumania and Czechoslovakia would no longer be adjoining States...
...move troops in defense of Czechoslovakia in case Hungary should try to take what she wanted by force. King Carol with a characteristic flourish announced he had been "deeply touched" by a petition from 50,000 Rumanians of Ruthenian blood who begged His Majesty not to let Hungary have Ruthenia...