Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Early in July Eduard Benes, President of Czecho-Slovakia, was going to Moscow to sign a 20-year military and political alliance with Russia. At British and perhaps U.S. prompting, he stayed in London. Alexander E. Bogomolov, Russian Ambassador to the Allied Governments in Exile in London, asked to go to Algiers to establish contact with the French Com mittee of National Liberation. The British gave him the required exit visa; U.S. authorities for more than a month refused him permission to enter Algiers. Only last week was the Ambassador allowed to proceed with his mission...
...price of such protection might prove too high, in terms of success of the plan. Under the new gold requirements, a dead-broke, gold-barren postwar nation, such as a reconstituted Austria or Czecho-Slovakia, would find it impossible to participate in the plan, unless the U.S. lends them the necessary gold, in effect underwrites the fund from its $22 billion hoard...
...Hungarian peace feelers turned up in many neutral capitals, generally coupled with inquiries as to how much of the territory snitched from Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czecho-Slovakia she might look forward to retaining. One feeler was reported to have offered the Yugoslav Government in Exile the return of all former Yugoslav territory. It was ignored...
...French Government on the fact that 95% of the French people are under the German heel, only 5% free. But many an observer at once pointed out that the U.S. recognizes eight other European Governments in exile, whose people are at least 95% under the German heel (Luxembourg, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, The Netherlands, Norway, Belgium, Greece and Yugoslavia...
...hear it-that sour note in the background that helps create the discordant theme for a copyrighted tune called New Order? Remember when it was composed? . . . One verse had something to do with the Sudetenlanders-that ravaged, long-enduring little band of people huddled away in Czecho-Slovakia. Through the anguished, hoarse-voiced howls and sobs of one Mr. A. Hitler, the world audience was introduced to a curious new circumstance-namely that some of the people born in a country weren't necessarily a part of that country...