Word: slovakia
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...Spain she broadcast for the Loyalists from Madrid. In Czecho-Slovakia she watched the Nazi occupation. In January she returned from the Finnish front, as only accredited female war correspondent, with sufficient news for five current articles in Collier's; then headed for San Francisco de Paula, Cuba, where Ernest Hemingway is wintering...
Berlin. Berlin's good weather ended with Envoy Welles's arrival. No flags, no bands, no military escorts were at the station. No U. S. flags, but the flaring white, light blue & red pennants of conquered Slovakia flapped in the snow over the Hotel Adlon where he unofficially stayed. A Slovakian propaganda mission, headed by young, black-haired, shouting Slovakian Propaganda Minister Sano Mach, pulled up at the front of the hotel at the same moment Welles's car drew up. Unobtrusive in a dark suit and black soft hat, poker-faced Sumner Welles gave no sign...
...sullen Habsburg mouth into a smile, asked: "Have you ever considered how industrious ants are?" Industrious but not quite as systematic as an ant, Otto has worked out a plan of restoration. The present war, he says, will end with revolution in Austria, which will spread to Bohemia-Moravia, Slovakia, Poland, the rest of Greater Germany. Then he will form a Danubian Federation-a democratic super-monarchy patterned after Great Britain, embracing Austria, Hungary, Bohemia-Moravia, Poland, Rumania (blithely overlooking well-intrenched Carol II) and Yugoslavia (overlooking the Habsburg-hating Serbs, who touched off World War I by murdering Otto...
...warring powers. ..." "It is not enough," cried Dr. Göebbels, "for the government of a neutral country to proclaim its neutral attitude . . . while public opinion has the freedom to insult! . . ." Meanwhile, German newspapers bristled with angry editorials attacking the Swiss press, which had referred to Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland as countries "occupied by Germany." Dr. Göebbels' editors reminded Switzerland that it was a small country and would do well to curb any unfriendly opinions in its press...
...Storm Jameson -Macmillan ($2.50). Europe to Let consists of four stories of that continent between-the-wars. Told, with bitter anger, by a fictional British writer named Mr. Esk, their essential subject is despair, fear, moral bankruptcy. They sketch the genesis of Naziism, death of Vienna, betrayal of Czecho-Slovakia, premonitions in Hungary...