Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberty Square in the heart of Budapest is a huge map of the old Kingdom of Hungary, done in shrubbery, with a Danube of blue flowers winding through its length. It shows, besides the Hungary of the Treaty of Trianon, all the provinces taken away by that treaty: Slovakia and Ruthenia, ceded to Czecho-Slovakia; Croatia, ceded to Yugoslavia; the Banat, ceded to Yugoslavia and Rumania; and the broad plateau of Transylvania, which Rumania also took. Around the map is a border of flowers spelling out in Hungarian...
Hemmed in by succession States, revisionist, expansionist, but surrounded by neighbors powerful enough to hold her in check, Hungary smoldered for 20 bitter years. Her first small chance came when Germany dismembered Czecho-Slovakia, tossing Hungary minuscule Ruthenia. Last week came Hungary's great chance. She took it-but not in the old-fashioned Balkan manner. In other times what was done in Vienna last week would have rocked the chancelleries of Europe, shaken bourse and market, reverberated around the world in grimmest headlines. Not so under the New Order. To Rome it was "a victory of Axis policy...
...been many honest pacifists, as now in the U. S. There had been many who believed the German propagandists who told them they could buy peace with Germany. There had been those who believed that Hitler would be satisfied after the occupation of the Saar, after Austria, after Czecho-Slovakia. "There are also Americans who argue that if Hitler should conquer Great Britain he would be content to stop there, and that the United States would be able to cooperate happily with the Hitler Empire of Europe. To believe this is to misunderstand the entire nature of the Nazi system...
...Berlin radio summarized the results of the conference: "Germany today, less than ever, had reason to refrain from pointing out that the Reich is in favor of reasonable Bulgarian and Hungarian revision claims." The result of the Salzburg sales talks will not be made public until Bulgaria and Slovakia have had their turns...
...wake, the Committee raised and spent $25,000,000 in its first decade to care for Europe's needy. Without neglecting its work in the U. S. (among West Virginia miners, Okies in California), the Committee is once more going full blast in Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, hopes soon to be permitted in The Netherlands and Belgium. The Committee is Episcopalian Eleanor Roosevelt's favorite charity, to which she has given some $150,000 from radio earnings...