Word: slovakia
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...sabotaged the League of Nations); British hostility to Franco-Russian alliance (when Britain first alienated Russia); British support of Belgium when she broke her British and French alliance (when Britain made it clear that she wanted to avoid war in Europe); British encouragement of the Henlein party in Czecho-Slovakia and of Yugoslavia's rapprochement with Italy and Germany (when Britain helped to break up the Little Entente). These moves were all based on two fundamental misconceptions : 1) Russia was more dangerous than Germany; 2) Hitler could be bought off with a little...
...gratitude for their pro-Axis campaign of terrorism. Hitler deeded to Croat extremists under Dr. Ante Pavelitch* a Croat State that will be about as free as the "independent" State of Slovakia...
...scaled down by the Young Committee in 1929 to $26,350,000,000, the yearly payments decreased. In 1932, when Germany ceased to pay, the Allies had collected some $9,000,000,000-a little less than twice as much as the territories occupied by Nazis (excluding Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria) now, according to this reckoning, pay each year for the privilege of having German troops police them...
...softer stuff. To them liberty was less precious than that ephemeral thing called unity-the artificial union of diverse Slavic tribes into the post-World War I state called Yugoslavia. Although all the other artificially-created post-war States had disappeared or been dismembered in two short years-Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Rumania, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania-Yugoslavia's leaders still hoped somehow to hold their own state together-and to keep their jobs. They were thinking not only of the tough, freedom-loving, German-hating Serbs, Macedonians, Montenegrins and Bosnians, but also of the Croats, the Slovenes and the Slavonians...
...long awaited Armageddon in southeastern Europe approached so fast last week that all but the troops involved were left behind the rush of events. It was spring-the season of German invasions of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark and Norway. One day the only Nazis in Bulgaria were a few scattered thousands in mufti. Next day Bulgarian Premier Professor Bogdan Filoff had signed with the Axis in Vienna and Bulgarian roads were jammed with mechanized Nazi columns. Within 48 hours the grey-green uniformed vanguard had rumbled 175 miles to villages in the Struma Valley a few miles from the mountainous...