Word: slovakia
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...Alfred Duff Cooper as a warmonger, apparently unaware that Duff Cooper had been out of the British Cabinet for twelve months. He was still the same Hitler, always being persecuted, first by those fearful bullies, the Jews, next by that ogre, Dr. Schuschnigg, third by that world power, Czecho-Slovakia, and now by these tyrants, the Poles. But was it for this that bombs were falling on Warsaw? In the next instalment...
...blood? . . . When Mr. Hitler tells us today after destroying Poland that he asks for nothing more, when he declares he wants nothing from France and will respect her frontiers, every Frenchman knows he will not hesitate if he can destroy France as he destroyed Austria, as he destroyed Czecho-Slovakia, as he seeks to destroy Poland...
Record. Austria and Czecho-Slovakia did not fight and received no mercy; Poland fought. The third European republic to end within the last year and a half, it had much to fight for. Finicky Westerners complained that Poland's democracy was superficial, Leftists bedazzled by propaganda about collective farms sympathized with its poor peasantry. But Poland had a record of social progress which, in terms of her initial difficulties, seemed as imposing as those of Europe's totalitarian States. Its Sejm, or Parliament, looked feeble compared to London or Washington. But it was Jeffersonian compared to the drilled...
Brightest reportorial highlights: > Sir Nevile on Goring, two months after the occupation of Czecho-Slovakia: "The Field Marshal appeared a little confused at [my] personal attack on his own good faith and assured me that he had himself known nothing of the decision before it had been taken. . . . Though I was in a hurry, he insisted on showing me, with much pride, the great structural alterations which he was making in his house at Karinhall and which include a new dining room to hold an incredible number of guests and to be all marble and hung with tapestries. . . . He also...
...Austrian Army. In September 1938, he said the same thing in almost the same words-and marched into the Sudetenland at the head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month, as motorized divisions began concentrating in Slovakia, in Silesia and East Prussia, Walther von Brauchitsch said good-by to his pretty wife and flew across the corridor to take personal command of the awaited Polish campaign in his old stamping ground, East Prussia. This time he was ready and the campaign hung...