Word: slovakia
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Already Russian troops in Slovakia were descending from the north on Hungary. Another Russian army crossed the prewar frontier to enter the Hungarian plain from the southeast. The Nazis needed their savings from Greece to try to save Hungary...
Czechs Arise. Slovakia was in revolt. The Berlin radio sputtered: "Soviet parachutists, saboteurs . . . Slav murderers and bandits. . . . We shall exact two thousandfold revenge. . . ." Screamed Dictator Father Joseph Tiso: "Slovakians! Give up your arms. If we keep order we shall not be occupied...
...Harvest. The Germans had-and muffed-a chance to play upon Slovak nationalism, foster a loyal satellite in Slovakia. Nazi greed and maladroitness soon destroyed any affection the Slovaks might have had for Germany; Slovak troops deserted wholesale rather than fight the Poles and the Russians, and Slovak Partisans have been locally active against the German Army...
Astute Dr. Benes recently trimmed his sails to the Slovak wind, watered down his previous insistence upon a centralized Czechoslovak government. Said he: "I, myself, believe that the decentralization of Bohemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Carpathian Ruthenia-to the degree that is especially necessary in Slovakia-is a matter of course...
Exiled Slovaks, such as one-time Prime Minister Milan Hodza, now in the U.S., hope that Slovaks in Slovakia will forget their taste of "independence" and cooperate in making a healthy, democratic postwar Czechoslovakia. Priest-President Tiso apparently thinks that they may be willing to try. Said he, in an obvious and ominous move to quell opposition to his brand of independence: "If there were no executions until now, it is not because a priest could not sign a death sentence...