Word: slovakia
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...appreciate "the blessings they enjoy in this democratic land," Mrs. Fisher decided, by following the example of her small Vermont neighbors. So she wrote to educators in 48 States proposing that school children contribute their pennies to a fund for child victims of war in China, Poland, Spain, Czecho-Slovakia, Finland, Norway...
...called to the Reichswehr Ministry in Berlin, got his majority in 1925, his first regimental command in 1928. Three years later he was Chief of Staff of the First Division, in 1932, a full colonel. Then he went to Prague for three years as military attache for Hungary, Czecho-Slovakia, Rumania. Germany did not have left many competent officers of his generation and he was soon commissioned a major general, Chief of Staff of the Third Army Corps...
...Budapest, Dr. Geza Szullo, onetime champion of Hungarian interests in Czecho-Slovakia, told the Upper Chamber of Parliament that German-protected Slovakia was systematically abusing its Magyar minority, that Slovak propaganda was "making attempts to spoil the harmony between Germany and Hungary." This made the Senators so angry that Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csáky had to reply with a speech that was scarcely less inflammatory. Said he: "Hungary may have to take risks for the protection of her national honor. The Hungarian Government . . . will act at the appropriate moment." Germany shipped tanks and supplies to eastern Slovakia, concentrated...
...others: Austria's Edgar Prochnik, Czecho-Slovakia's Vladimir Hurban, Poland's Count Jerzy Potocki, Albania's Faik Konitza...
...neutrality proclamation was still unmade. For four days Mr. Roosevelt also withheld the statement. When he did speak last week, he did not name Germany. His words were for-the-record echoes of all that a U. S. President could say and had already said for Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Albania, Poland, Finland. ("If civilization is to survive, the rights of the smaller nations . . . must be respected by their more powerful neighbors"). The complacent Nazis considered his statement harmless enough to print in Copenhagen. To the U. S. people, President Roosevelt sounded like a bystander who is tired of talking...