Word: slovakia
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...voice of his fugitive master, King Zog I, dwindled away behind the mountains of Greece, drowned out by the cannon of Mussolini, Minister Konitza betook himself to the State Department to protest his country's rape and to announce that he, like Minister Hurban of Czecho-Slovakia (TIME, March 27), would not yield his legation to his country's conquerors. Should he hear from King Zog that all was lost he would, he said, burn all his papers: the Italians should never have them...
...Lamented Czecho-Slovakia's lost freedom...
...European government seriously considered jumping in to save Albania's independence, nor did the protests against the Rome-Berlin axis aggression seem any louder than those that accompanied the German seizure of Czecho-Slovakia last month. Clearly Albania itself was not worth fighting over...
...time the election was held last week, external pressure had molded the lump of lard back into one solid piece. Belgians were so frightened by what happened to an internally weak Czecho-Slovakia that they crowded to the polls to elect a Parliament of unity, moderation, stability. Most extremist parties lost seats while the moderate Liberals and Catholics gained. Socialists lost more than a quarter of their strength, and the fascist Rexists were almost completely wiped out. Even Eupen, Malmédy and Saint Vith, supposedly ardent pro-Nazi districts nearest Germany, voted 55% nationalist and anti-German...
...record of six months' travel in Czecho-Slovakia before Munich, North of the Danube contains eight sensitive, compact sketches by Erskine Caldwell, 64 photographs which include some of the best Margaret Bourke-White has done. Slighter than their classic word & picture study of the South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected...