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...studied military theory, held various Yugoslavian commands, was active in political bodies for the preservation of Balkan unity. He was sent as military attache to Sofia (1934) and Prague (1936), and is rumored to have been connected with underground movements working against Nazi influence in both Bulgaria and Czecho-Slovakia...
...March 1, 1935, he got the Saar by plebiscite. On March 7, 1936, he reoccupied the Rhineland. On March 13, 1938, he marched into Austria. On March 15, 1939, he occupied the rump of Czecho-Slovakia. On April 9, 1940, he absorbed Denmark and invaded Norway. On April 6, 1941, he drove into Yugoslavia and Greece...
Editor Tabouis began her tremendous exposés. She exposed Laval's secret Ethiopian deal with Mussolini. She exposed the terms of the Hoare-Laval pact. She foretold (from information supplied by agents among the Nazis) the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the Nazi seizure of Austria and Czecho-Slovakia. In time she seemed to be able to see through dispatch boxes, the impenetrable files of chancelleries, the even more impenetrable minds of Europe's statesmen...
...Czecho-Slovakia. At Bratislava, 40 miles east of Vienna, Hitler would see workmen feverishly camouflaging the mammoth dynamite factory so that its colors would blend with those of the freshly plowed Slovak and Hungarian fields. Authorities feared that the R.A.F. might try to repeat its Paris success in Czechoslovakia. In the newspapers Hitler would read about the desperate drive to increase armament production (in some factories it was down to 20% of capacity), but he would know that longer hours might mean more fuseless bombs, more faulty aircraft...
Even before Pearl Harbor, glitter was fast vanishing from 10?-store counters as stocks of imitation pearls, rhinestones and cut glass, imported mainly from Czecho-Slovakia, ran low. Today the only practicable metal the $50,000,000 costume jewelry industry can get is costly sterling silver. Even sterling is in danger: it contains 7.5% copper...