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...mantle so precipitately last week. In one fundamental sense it was a simple bank-robbing act. Germany, which must buy important raw materials outside her borders, needs real money. Germany reports about $29,000,000 in gold left (some esti mates: as high as $200,000,000). Czecho slovakia, an exporting country, had $80,000,000 in gold in its national bank, enough to offset Germany's adverse trade balance for a few months, and about two and a half times that much in foreign assets and ex change, which Germany may not get (see p. 18). This loot...
...Hitler moves should no longer surprise the world. But last week he outdid himself. The four familiar steps of a Hitler conquest-preliminary propaganda, conference with victims, march of troops, and triumphal entry-followed each other like the rapid fire of a machine gun. His culminating campaign in Czecho-Slovakia lasted exactly three days...
Thus the campaign was completed, all but the mopping up operations. On Thursday morning Chancellor Hitler announced receipt of a telegram from Dr. Jozef Tiso, for two days stooge President of newly "independent" Slovakia. "In supreme confidence in you," it said, ". . . the Slovak State places itself under your protection." With equally supreme confidence in himself, Adolf Hitler swallowed Slovakia whole. Now Germany had a common border with Carpatho-Ukraine, which Hungary announced she was annexing...
From Brünn he went by special train not as expected to Bratislava, capital of Slovakia, but to Vienna ; and from there back to Berlin...
...Adolf Hitler seized Czecho-Slovakia because he thought the country's riches would pull him out of an economic hole, he is very likely to find himself as mistaken as when he took Austria and the Sudetenland. They have both proved to be liabilities...