Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spring of 1938 Hitler took Austria. In the fall of 1938 he conquered Czecho-Slovakia at Munich. In the fall of 1939 he took Poland. If Britain and France had not called for a showdown at that time he would not have attended to them until later. His next step would logically have been to carve himself an empire in that part of Europe which is mapped on the two following pages...
...when the U. S. condemned the seizure of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France, the attack on Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
...great, it offered the concession to the highest foreign bidder. Interest lagged except in iron-hungry Germany, where the Krupp combine, according to the Brazilians, tried hard to get the monopoly. Hitler's commercial agents, they said, had offered to transfer the entire Skoda Works from Czecho-Slovakia to Brazil. When World War II began to devour more steel than Europe could produce, Axel Wenner-Gren, Swedish steel baron (Bofors), was also supposed to have turned up in Rio de Janeiro with an offer for exploitation by a Swedish-German consortium said to include Krupp. Hoping to interest...
...made his second slip. Denouncing Mr. Roosevelt's capacity for handling foreign problems, he cried: "Was that an extraordinary demonstration of human knowledge . . . when he telephoned Hitler and Mussolini and urged them to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river?" Aides hastened to explain. Mr. Willkie had "misspoken," had meant to say that Mr. Roosevelt had urged a settlement at Munich and the Munich pact "agreed to sell Czecho-Slovakia down the river...
Reunion in Vienna. In Belvedere Palace in Vienna, where two years ago the Rome-Berlin Axis graciously gave Hungary a nibble of Czecho-Slovakia, Counts Teleki and Csaky again met their Axis mentors last week. Besides their old friends, Germany's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Italy's Count Galeazzo Ciano, they had the pleasure of meeting Rumanian Foreign Minister Mihail Manoilescu. M. Manoilescu had been summoned by the Axis. The German and Italian Foreign Ministers were there simply to lend their good offices to the discussions, to point the way to a resumption of negotiations...