Word: sudeten
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...month, that Europe would sooner or later be offered a sudden and staggering proposed "Solution"- whether or not it be now accepted. Repeatedly correspondents have described Herr Hitler as bringing on the Czechoslovak crisis: primarily to break up the Russo-Czech-French alliance; secondly to get control of the Sudeten Mountains which have barred his "Push-to-the-East"; and only lastly because of the joy it would give all Germans to feel that their "Sudeten brothers" have been rescued from the euphemism of "Czech oppression...
...Czechoslovakia this week, even the redoubtable Belgian Sovereign might have shown less courage, resourcefulness and firmness than did President Eduard Benes last week. Astonished Prague learned on Wednesday evening from press wires that Neville Chamberlain would fly on Thursday morning to Berchtesgaden, bitterly observed that the violent Sudeten German riots which broke out on Monday night, directly after Hitler's Nürnberg speech, had been quelled by police and gendarmes so effectively that at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday orders went out from Henlein headquarters for Sudeten German fighting to cease and outlawed Nazi symbols...
Enough Rope. Falkenau, a typical Sudeten German town, was a flaunting forest of swastika banners on the afternoon before this Henlein order went out. By next morning not a single swastika was flying in Falkenau, and on the streets Nazis no longer greeted each other with the Hitler salute, as all had done the day before...
This neutral U. S. correspondents eyewitnessed. Dashing about in motorcars, they verified that only in the western frontier sector of the Sudeten German area had there been bloodshed. The north, east and south were calm "with business as usual," but in the west 46 had been killed by Wednesday night and savage acts were verified. Citizens of Habersberg gave eyewitness testimony that on Tuesday fully-armed Sudeten Nazis had besieged the local commandant and his gendarmes for three hours. When the commandant surrendered and emerged, they said, Nazis closed in around him, beat and kicked the commandant to death...
...Herr Benes," shouted the Dictator, "to give the Sudeten Germans gifts. What the Germans demand is the right of self-determination. . . . The talks and half-promises of Benes cannot go on any longer. . . . President Benes has engaged in tactics showing that he desires to negotiate under the methods of the League of Nations-that cannot go on forever. . . . In Palestine the Arabs stand defenseless, and perhaps deserted. The Sudeten Germans are neither defenseless nor deserted. . . . I serve peace if I leave no doubt that the oppression of 3,500,000 Sudeten Germans is to end and be replaced...