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...several problems arise in connection with any plan for a neutralized Central Europe, which argue strongly against it. As an English commentator has pointed out, the Russians might probably foment internal disorder and then seize desired cities to foil "fascist plots." Hitler's precedent with the Sudeten Germans forms an instructive precedent which shows how effective this tactic can be. Could weakened NATO forces contest successive nibbles and would we dare to use massive retaliation against a small Russian move? In any case, a buffer zone plan seems to provide little more stability than exists at present. Demilitarizing Central Europe...
...onetime Liberal M.P.,* President of the Board of Trade (1914-16, 1931-37); after long illness; in Chathill, England. In 1931 Runciman drafted, under Tory pressure, the emergency tariff that ended Britain's 80-year-old free trade policy; in 1938 he was unofficial mediator in the Czech-Sudeten pre-World War II crisis...
...fire-eating, conscienceless nationalist speaks shrilly from the past. Standing a stone's throw from the infamous Dachau, where a refugee camp now huddles, I listened to the booming voice of Franz Jilka: "Give us another war!" Jilka is one of three million Sudeten Germans driven from Czechoslovakia after the last war. He is an old Social Democrat, 64, grizzled, tough and thirsting for revenge. "Would I fight!" he exclaimed. "Give me the chance! All three million of us are waiting for the war-that is the only way we can get back our land. Give us the arms...
Many Czechs found themselves in German-administered D.P. camps filled with Sudeten Germans recently expelled from Czechoslovakia. In a camp near Hof, in Bavaria, Czech refugees complained: "We are living on the German economy, sleeping in German shelters, eating German food. This cannot continue. It is impossible for us. They are laughing at us. How can the democratic nations of the world permit this to happen...
There was not another sound as the judge intoned (in Czech first and then in German) the eight-minute-long verdict of the people of Czechoslovakia against Karl Hermann Frank, the Sudeten German leader in the prewar Czech Parliament and later the Nazi "protector." Silently the people listened to the charges: treason, the murder of 300,000 Czechs, propagation of Naziism, and "co-responsibility" for the destruction of Lidice...