Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many a gourmet and amateur cook has stubbornly maintained that no souffle lit to eat can be turned out without the proper French oven ware. For them, the fall of France was a calamity because French ware was fragile and subject to constant replacement. As Czecho-Slovakia, the Low Countries, Sweden and Italy were consecutively blocked out, U. S. manufacturers found themselves with all but a fraction (Great Britain's) of the $100,000,000 U. S. pottery and china market on their hands. They were geared to supply two-thirds of it, no more. Last week they were...
Next day, again, pens scratched under the same formula. This time Dr. Vojtetch Tuka checked in for little Slovakia, of which he is Premier and Foreign Minister. Dr. Tuka was impressive in his sombre uniform of the Hlinka Guards, and when he had signed his name he told the assembled dignitaries how he dreamed of this hour "during long years in a prison cell...
...first to gain territories with the help of the Axis. Rumania, at whose expense the more recent gains were made, joined because she had to. There were some 15,000 German soldiers garrisoned in Rumania last week as a grim guarantee of friendship. Most people thought of Slovakia as part of Greater Germany (actually the area is a "protectorate"), so its signing was no shock. The signers for both Rumania and Slovakia were political jailbirds released by the Nazis...
...signing up, the three countries became mere limbs of the Axis. They were in no sense coequal with the three leaders. Hungary did not sign Rumania's pact, Rumania did not sign Slovakia's. After all had joined, the master pact was still referred to as the Tripartite Pact...
...Europe. But Lojas financed many a backroom Brazilian factory; now 75% of its goods are homegrown, and many a Lojas-squired factory now sells all over Brazil. Some of them have even begun to cast eyes on the world trinket markets once dominated by Czecho-Slovakia and other European countries...