Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...troops and planes invaded Slovakia. Immediate objective was the important Ung Valley railroad connecting Hungary with Poland. Hungary's larger ambition is eventually to gain control of all Slovakia, which used to be in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Adolf Hitler, having just assumed a 25-year responsibility for Slovak territory, hurried back from Memel. At week's end, it seemed that Hungary would get the railroad, but nothing more...
After three days of fighting, a truce was declared. As peace negotiations began in Budapest, Hungary claimed a complete victory. Official Hungarian statements said that the railroad was captured, eleven Slovak planes had been brought down and 17 destroyed on the ground; that the only Hungarian loss was the capture of two men who had accidentally taken a wrong road. Slovak dispatches listed 23 Hungarian dead and 55 wounded. German communiques insisted the whole thing was just a border incident...
...Reich will pay for the products in barter marks, manufactured goods and recently acquired Czecho-Slovak arms (which Rumania will probably never be able to use and which Germany may later grab anyway...
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...
...paper, however, the booty looks impressive: 1) about $80,000,000 in gold in the Czecho-Slovak National Bank; 2) about $200,000,000 in foreign exchange and foreign assets held abroad by individuals and corporations; 3) an agricultural surplus in Moravia and Bohemia sufficient to feed the Sudetenland, and in Slovakia sufficient to feed Vienna; 4) about 1,200 Czech airplanes (200 of them first-line), 500 tanks, some good heavy artillery; 5) increased industrial and arms capacity...