Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Masaryk (Sat. 6:15 p. m. CBS), former Czecho-Slovak Minister to Great Britain, makes his first public address in the U. S., "Democracy and the Minorities...
...have dazzled many a fiery Laborite. He has been a potent behind-the-scenes figure in Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasing the dictators. Last September the Marquess bobbed up at Munich at just the time Friend Chamberlain was arranging for Friend Hitler the big Czecho-Slovak handout. Even after Munich Lord Londonderry advocated a deal on colonies further to appease Nazi Germany...
Last week Czecho-Slovaks, busy making the best of their abbreviated state, stopped work for a moment to take melancholy leave of General Louis Eugène Faucher, for 20 years head of France's military mission in the former Czechoslovakia. During the recent crisis General Faucher resigned his commission in the French Army, offered his services to President Benes. Reviewing a guard of honor at the station in Prague, the General wept as he kissed the flag of the country whose army he had so largely created himself. As his train pulled out, a military band played...
Last month the name of Czechoslovakia was officially changed to Czecho-Slovakia. This week the hyphenation was made significant when the autonomous Slovak Government took occasion to discharge Czech (and Jewish) professors and officials in the Slovak area. "Slovakia for the Slovaks," was the slogan of a campaign which marked another big fissure in the disintegration of the State of Eduard Benes and Thomas Masaryk pulled but could not hold together...
...Farinacci lost his right hand in the Ethiopian war, in 1937 went to Spain as liaison between Mussolini and Franco, boasts: "I unified the Spanish Fascist Falange Party machine!" Like Hitler, passionately fond of music and indifferent to women, No. 1 Italian Jew-Baiter Farinacci attended the pre-Czecho-slovak Crisis session of the Nürnberg Nazi Party Congress as head of the Italian Delegation...