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Meanwhile, Czechoslovak-Hungarian negotiations over the question of secession by Prague of Slovakian but not Ruthenian territory to Budapest concluded last week with an agreement to let the matter be arbitrated jointly by Germany and Italy. The German Foreign Minister, onetime Wine & Spirits Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, went to Rome...
"A dean could proclaim himself dictator," Lerner writes, "and his loyal adherents would wear red shirts to classes. A notice of secession would be sent to the Governor of the Common wealth."
The idea of secession was carried further by a group calling themselves "the Harvard Secessionist Society" which claimed 400 members pledged to the support of Toomey's proposal.
According to the Runciman report, "Sudeten extremists" such as Führer Henlein brashly refused to go to Prague to discuss Plan No. 4, and also Henlein's additional demands, instead urged "ex-treme unconstitutional action"-i. e., Sudeten secession-so that by September 13 "the Reich had become...
After striking this blow, Times Editor Geoffrey Dawson was still in good enough standing to lunch with His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Halifax. While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper...