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...February, rumors began to have substance : Plans were afoot for a secret parley in Sweden. One-eyed General Jan Syrovy, the "strong man" who became Premier of Czecho-Slovakia during last September's Crisis and who seemed to disappear when Bohemia-Moravia became a protectorate, was rumored carrying mysterious messages from Hitler to Stalin and back, his object being to better the condition of his fellow Czechs under Hitler and to "revenge Munich." Hitler had told the Ambassador that Germany had no designs on the Ukraine, that Stalin should therefore consider a confidential exchange of views; Maxim Litvinoff stayed...
...people in Alaska bought $42,000,000 of U. S. products-more than Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, Poland, Finland, Portugal or Spain, all countries with much greater population, and only slightly less than Russia and Brazil...
...Professor Riley? Guesses began to fly: perhaps he was Durham University's eminent Chemist Harry Lister Riley (no; reporters found him vacationing in Northumberland); a Government bigwig, sent, as Lord Runciman was to Czecho-Slovakia in August 1938, to find that the disputed area wasn't worth squabbling over (Downing Street denied it); a personal emissary of Neville Chamberlain's sent behind his own Government's back to pave the way for a second Munich agreement; perhaps just a crank...
Warsaw struck back, arrested the Nazi leader of Polish Germans, disbanded pro-Nazi German organizations. And although Germany swung troops into Slovakia, P'o-land's Ambassador to the U. S., Count Jerzy Potocki, summed up Polish feeling in Washington: "Just as surely as you see me sitting here there will be a general war if Germany attempts to change the status of Danzig." Member of one of the few great Polish landowning families that fought for Polish independence, blond, fox-hunting Count Potocki had been so completely tagged as Washington's leading diplomatic socialite that...
...area, after the German mechanized army had had a chance to bog down in the muddy roads back of the old frontier, the Polish army would still have its own industrial area behind it-provided the Germans had not got into the triangle by the backdoor. On the south (Slovakia) the triangle is guarded by the Carpathians which stand next to the Alps as a first-class natural fortification. On the west it faces greater danger from attack across the German border in the area between Breslau and the Moravian Gate. In this region many an observer believes that...