Word: slovakia
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...line of the Russian Army advance lies pint-sized Slovakia-and trouble for practically everybody concerned in the affairs of postwar Eastern Europe...
...Slovaks has long given the impression that they are all devoutly Catholic, anti-German, anti-Czech, antiCommunist, preeminently pro-Slovak. Their hilly land (14,484 sq. mi.) had been a part of Hungary for 1,011 years when, in 1918, the Versailles peacemakers joined Slovakia to Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and created Czechoslovakia. (Ruthenia, which the Russians entered last week, became a part of Czechoslovakia in 1919, was seized by Hungary...
Summarizing, in February 1939, what had been done to his country, scholarly Diplomat Benes found for the western democracies the tough descriptive term "decadence." A few weeks later, Hitler slept in the castle of Prague. When post-Munich Czechoslovakia was carved to pieces, Soviet Russia recognized "independent" Slovakia. But at that moment, the "decadent" democracies began to wake up from pacifist follies and appeasement nightmares. Their encouragement put life into the Czechoslovak Government in Exile...
...Scraps that fell from Hitler's table into Hungary's eager mouth: Czechoslovakia's Rutheniaand parts of Slovakia, Yugoslavia's Voivodina, Rumania's northern Transylvania...
...Czecho Slovakia, this sports sabotage soon became the prototype and nucleus of the underground movement. Though many of Norway's top athletes have escaped to join United Nations' forces, sports clubs remain important cells...