Word: slovak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Slovak National Court in Bratislava came Father Josef Tiso, a man long cheated of his proper niche in history. Scrupulous justice would have made Tiso's name (and not that of Johnny-come-lately Vidkun Quisling) a worldwide synonym for treason...
...Bratislava last week, Slovak independence provided a test of his technique. During a soccer game between the Czech-Moravian team and the Slovak eleven, Slovak spectators took offense at two sudden Czech goals, injured several Czech players. The rioters were finally subdued with a fire hose...
...Annie would send housewives raiding grocers' shelves by reporting that the Allies had dropped fake ration stamps. Once the station described a celebration honoring German railroad workers-most of them slave laborers. Said Annie: "At the end of the celebration, speeches were translated into Polish, Hungarian and Slovak-for the benefit of the assembled . . . workers...
...Humenne, in the burgeoning Slovak countryside, he switched from train to auto. Along the road peasants cheered his triumphant return from six years exile, welcomed him in the old Slavic way with bread & salt...
...Kosice, which will be Czechoslovakia's capital until Prague is liberated, Benes will stop in Moscow to discuss matters with Joseph Stalin. Most likely successor to Premier Monsignor Jan Sramek, of the Czech People's Catholic Party, will be Vavro Srobar, a Slovak and an agrarian leftist. Other ministerial portfolios will go to a national front coalition, including Socialists (Benes' party), Communists (No. 4 party in pre-Munich Czechoslovakia), Social Democrats. Czech People's Catholics, Small Farmers (a leftist group) and the Slovak National Council (Slovak resistance...