Word: ruthenia
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...Warsaw (formerly Lublin) Polish Government, which indicated that it might be willing to trade Teschen in return for Czech recognition. The threat was made by way of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic, whose Kiev radio unexpectedly broadcast a claim to the Czechoslovak province of Carpatho-Ukraine (also known as Ruthenia), the only part of Czechoslovakia yet liberated by the Red Army. The Teschen area (500 sq. miles), rich in coal and heavily industrialized, had been tossed by Adolf Hitler as a sop to Poland after Munich. Backward, mountainous Ruthenia (4,886 sq. miles) had never formed part of the Ukraine...
...into the Russian orbit, Dr. Benes had extracted a Soviet promise to respect the Republic's pre-Munich frontiers. But last week Russian Foreign Commissar Viacheslav Molotov was reported to have sent a disturbing note to the Czech Government in London: the Soviet would respect its promise, but Ruthenia showed a strong tendency to join the Soviet Ukraine. Said the Kiev radio: most of Ruthenia's 800,000 citizens speak a Ukrainian dialect, have voted in a plebiscite (organized by the Ruthenian Communist Party) for incorporation in the Ukraine. Already Peoples' Committees were dividing large landholdings among...
...given the impression that they are all devoutly Catholic, anti-German, anti-Czech, antiCommunist, preeminently pro-Slovak. Their hilly land (14,484 sq. mi.) had been a part of Hungary for 1,011 years when, in 1918, the Versailles peacemakers joined Slovakia to Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and created Czechoslovakia. (Ruthenia, which the Russians entered last week, became a part of Czechoslovakia in 1919, was seized by Hungary...
Astute Dr. Benes recently trimmed his sails to the Slovak wind, watered down his previous insistence upon a centralized Czechoslovak government. Said he: "I, myself, believe that the decentralization of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia-to the degree that is especially necessary in Slovakia-is a matter of course...
Hemmed in by succession States, revisionist, expansionist, but surrounded by neighbors powerful enough to hold her in check, Hungary smoldered for 20 bitter years. Her first small chance came when Germany dismembered Czecho-Slovakia, tossing Hungary minuscule Ruthenia. Last week came Hungary's great chance. She took it-but not in the old-fashioned Balkan manner. In other times what was done in Vienna last week would have rocked the chancelleries of Europe, shaken bourse and market, reverberated around the world in grimmest headlines. Not so under the New Order. To Rome it was "a victory of Axis policy...