Word: slovaks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this function. In the opinion of some who are shaping policy in Washington, Dr. Benes is too much of an opportunist; too close to Joseph Stalin, too deeply obligated to the U.S.S.R. And there are other reasons, including the fact that his own political position is under attack from Slovak extremists...
...Catholic Slovak league (some leaders of which even in the U.S. have openly applauded Hitler's puppet regime in "independent" Slovakia) bitterly opposes him. Some of his fellow Czechs dislike his commitments to Russia. A personal friend of Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski, Benes is hated by Polish extremists, partly because he insists that any federation between postwar Poland and Czechoslovakia should be adapted to the wishes of the U.S.S.R...
...names visible are Greek, Jewish, Russian, Slovak and run the whole gamut of countries. The proprietor's hat is at the right of the word "check...
...Saluted continued Czecho-Slovak defiance of the Nazis in a cable to exiled President Eduard Benes (in London) on the 24th anniversary of Czech independence...
...farmers of the sunny, floral little Mexican village of San Jeronimo, half an hour from Mexico City, have recently thought much of unhappier places. This week, following the lead of an Illinois town (TIME, July 20), they changed the name of San Jeronimo to Lidice, after the martyred Czecho-Slovak village...