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...turn out in Berlin, alarmed Central Europe where people believed the Times was speaking for the British Government-approving Adolf Hitler's ambition to absorb Austria and at least part of Czechoslovakia. To reassure his Czechoslovaks, their popular President Eduard Benes had to have his party newsorgan Ceske Slovo announce: "The London Times today is no more than the mouthpiece of an influential group of titled people who in their paralytic fear of Germany are working at all costs for Anglo-German Rapprochement...
Ever since the War the so-called "Little Entente'' countries (Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania) have been nibbling at the idea of lending real potency to their some-what nebulous union by banding together in a cast-iron military alliance. Last week an astounding article appeared at Prague in authoritative Ceske Slovo, newspaper famed as the personal organ of brilliant, dynamic Foreign Minister Dr. Edouard Benes, "Biggest Little Statesman in Europe," creator and coordinating genius of the "Little Entente...
...matter-of-fact fashion the editor of Ceske Slovo announced that he could now tell what took place in Belgrade last spring at the annual and, as usual, deathly secret conference of "Little Entente" statesmen...
Serenely sensational, the Ceske Slovo went on to warn colleagues of Dr. Edouard Benes in the Czechoslovak Cabinet that they must not expect to learn, even from him, all the details of the secret treaty...
...modern history had only a few hours in which to wonder whether Dr. Edouard Benes?co-founder of the Czechoslovak Republic with famed President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk? could possibly have tinkered together in secret the new three-in-one "Great Power." For the day after its revelation. Ceske Slovo announced that the entire story "must be considered as withdrawn." In all the "Little Entente" countries censorship was clamped on tight. None of the three Governments made an announcement or explanation. What could not be hushed up in the U. S. can and frequently is hushed in Central Europe. From Prague...