Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years, he was largely responsible for reforms which tended to take foreign service out of politics and to put it on a merit basis. He became Assistant Secretary of State in 1924 under Secretary Charles Evans Hughes, resigned the post in 1937 to become Minister to Czecho Slovakia, retired...
What in the world happened to you?" "Heil Hitler," said Heydrich. "It was the Czechs who did it, the yellow democratic curs. They bombed my car last week, outside Prague, while I was on my way back to Berlin to tell the Fuhrer (Heil Hitler!') that Czecho-Slovakia had at last been Germanized. Two men bombed me and then shot up my spine with tommy guns, the contemptible, bicycling plutocrats-Heil Hitler!" "Come, come," said the Devil. "Let's forget the 'Heil Hitler' business for a while. Remember we're all sons of bitches here...
...Watch what we do to the Czechs," said Heydrich. "We killed 82 of them the first four days after I got hurt. And we'll kill hundreds more. We'll kill them or they'll kill us. There must be no Czecho-Slovakia left, no one left in Europe who opposes the German Reich. You might have thought it was an old-fashioned idea to round up hostages and shoot them by the hundreds when one of the conquerors is killed. It isn't. It's effective, and after a while it becomes pleasant...
...shattered his spine. Then send him back to his hell on earth. . . ." And that is the reason why the conquered people of Europe, the "silent people" who suffer and wait and hope for liberation, first heard last week that Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazi hangman, had been killed in Czecho-Slovakia; then, later, that he was not dead but would be hopelessly crippled. Heydrich might still die, but the reason he kept on living for awhile was simply that hell would not have...
...first time the U.S. had in one person four ambassadors and three ministers. The seven are Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., already minister to the exiled Governments of Greece, Czecho-Slovakia and Yugoslavia, Ambassador to the exiled Governments of The Netherlands, Poland and Belgium. Last week he was named Ambassador to the exiled Government of Norway. Object: a tribute to that country's "unrelenting resistance" to the Nazis...