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...White Paper the British Government printed the obituary. It noted that "Germany has deliberately destroyed arrangements concerning Czecho-Slovakia reached in 1938," that "the Prime Minister has already stated in a message broadcast to the Czecho-Slovak people Sept. 30, 1940 the attitude of His Majesty's Government with regard to the arrangements." The Paper recalled that the British had officially told Dr. Benes that they considered the corpse a corpse...
Though not yet in the class of the late Paddy Finucane (TIME, July 27), curly-haired, handsome Max, D.F.C., is one of Britain's aces. In London, at week's end Czecho-Slovak President Eduard Benes announced that young Max would get another decoration: the Czech War Cross. That made two things Benes and the Beaver shared in common-a high regard for Wing Commander Aitken and mounting impatience for a second front...
Czecho-Slovakia. At Bratislava, 40 miles east of Vienna, Hitler would see workmen feverishly camouflaging the mammoth dynamite factory so that its colors would blend with those of the freshly plowed Slovak and Hungarian fields. Authorities feared that the R.A.F. might try to repeat its Paris success in Czechoslovakia. In the newspapers Hitler would read about the desperate drive to increase armament production (in some factories it was down to 20% of capacity), but he would know that longer hours might mean more fuseless bombs, more faulty aircraft...
Adolf Hitler last week was face to face with an old European tradition: that a good way to lose a war is to attack Russia. In 3,000 carefully chosen, sense-making words, appearing last week in the Man chester Guardian, sagacious old Eduard Benes, President of the Czecho-Slovak Government-in-Exile, told...
...Same day the ungodly Russians tried to cash in on Christianity. The Moscow radio, in its Slovak, Dutch, Rumanian and Bulgarian broadcasts, charged the Nazis with "menacing the very existence of Christianity," called upon "all God-loving inhabitants of the occupied countries" to rise in defense of their religious freedom...