Word: slovakia
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...conferred with a pale Adolf Hitler in a village in the foothills of the Alps, when from Berlin came stories that Russia would join the Axis, and when the shape of some vast peace move-a super-Munich that would be for all Europe what Munich was for Czecho-Slovakia-loomed in the background of dispatches...
...Austria. Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, and now in Finland, Adolf Hitler had managed with devilish cunning to give his western opponents no place to lay a hand on him. Their chosen strategy for the past six months had perforce been tenacity-hang on, if unable to smoke him out, starve him out. Had the time now come for audacity? Such was the questioning mood, gloomy yet determined, uneasy though defiant, that was rapidly developing in the Allied countries early this week. And just at that point Adolf Hitler, that gifted diplomatic poker player with a hand full of jokers, raised...
...some time, in walked another great emotionalist, David Lloyd George. On his feet to talk about food problems, the veteran (who repeatedly warned Britain to stay out of Finland rather than join war with Russia) mournfully declared: "It is the old trouble-too late. Too late with Czecho-Slovakia, too late with Poland, certainly too late with Finland. It is always too late or too little or both, and that is the road to disaster...
...Trade Menace, in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, he won a Pulitzer Prize. Edged out of Germany after Hitler came to power, Knickerbocker colorfully reported wars in Ethiopia, Spain and China for Hearst's International News Service, saw German troops march into Austria, then into Czecho-Slovakia...
...Hitler wins, the U. S. will be not much better off than Czecho-Slovakia was in 1938, will have to face the combined fleets of Germany, Italy, Russia, Japan, England, France...