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...three years ago in Pomona, Calif., a Czecho-Slovak butcher named William Dubil lugged a bottom round of beef from his refrigerator, found that someone had stored it too near the freezing coils. It was granite-hard. Sure that the piece was spoiled, would blacken as it thawed, rueful Dubil put it on a slicing machine, turned out a stack of paper-thin slices. He put them in the display refrigerator just to see what would happen...
...Japan's present at tempt to drive foreign interests out of China, an eventuality which the British Government at that time thought highly improbable. The drawing of the gorged wolves appeared on Dec. 2, 1938, shortly after Polish troops occupied Teschen, completing the post-Munich occupation of Czecho-Slovak territory. The Spanish dancers were drawn last February when France and Great Britain were preparing to recognize the Franco Government...
...aggression pacts with every Soviet neighbor except Japan. Scared by Adolf Hitler's "if-I-had-the-Ukraine" line of chatter, he played the game of collective security for all it was worth throughout the dictators' aggressions in Ethiopia, Spain, Austria. Last autumn, the Czecho-Slovak crisis found him again at Geneva proposing joint British-French-Russian action to save the Czechs...
Meanwhile, signs that Herr Hitler was not altogether satisfied with his dependency were accumulating. Although Slovak officials hailed the Fuhrer as the "noble-minded peace hero of all humanity," last week crowds in Bratislava gathered to shout "Down with Germany" and to show their sympathy for Nazi-troubled Poland, Numerous anti-German slogans appeared on walls. Many Slovaks were arrested...
...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...