Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Catholic Slovak league (some leaders of which even in the U.S. have openly applauded Hitler's puppet regime in "independent" Slovakia) bitterly opposes him. Some of his fellow Czechs dislike his commitments to Russia. A personal friend of Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski, Benes is hated by Polish extremists, partly because he insists that any federation between postwar Poland and Czechoslovakia should be adapted to the wishes of the U.S.S.R...
...planned. Reason: the State Department reduced his itinerary to appearances in New York and Chicago (which CzechoSlovaks call their "second largest city"). One of the cities omitted from his tour is Philadelphia, where expatriate Thomas Masaryk in 1918 signed the declaration which proclaimed the existence and freedom of Czecho-Slovakia...
...sweep and tempo of Allied air attacks on Axis Europe increased last week. Bombers from Britain were over France and the Low Countries; over Czecho-Slovakia, East Prussia, the Baltic seacoast, southern and northwestern Ger many; over factories making planes, tanks, dyes, submarine parts, aircraft motors, artillery, ammunition. Russian four-motored bombers roared out of the dark ness over Poland to batter the power stations and railroad centers at Königsberg, in East Prussia; and the machine-tool plants, warehouses, chemical factories and shipyards at Danzig on the Baltic...
Sikorski and Eduard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia, once stood together in support of a Central European federation aimed not at Russia but at Germany. Lately the Poles, heady with resurgent nationalism now that the Allies are beginning to win, have demanded some Czech territory, and Benes stands alone. But Benes still has the good will of Britain and Russia. Said the Czech Government last week, scorning rumors (current in anti-Benes circles in diplomatic Washington) that it was moving to Moscow: "We stand for an agreement between the Western democracies and Soviet Russia in Central Europe. We will...
...stick to the legal way our enemies will be destroyed, because right will be on our side." But Social Democracy was destroyed. "In the case of Germany the democrats of Weimar had relinquished the bastion without raising a hand in its defense; in the case of Czecho-Slovakia, it was the democrats of the world...