Word: sudeten
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Straw Man." Viscount Runciman's entourage began complaining fortnight ago that they have found Konrad Henlein nothing but a "straw man," and last week the Sudeten Führer went to Berchtesgaden only to take the orders of his boss, Führer Hitler-for the fourth time this year...
...occupied in 1909 by British King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra when they came to "take the waters." Down from its wall came a portrait of bewhiskered Kaiser Franz Josef and up went a photograph of smooth-face Führer Henlein. The new occupant of the Suite was Sudeten Nazi Leader Konrad Henlein who went there to confer with representative of Britain's mediator, Viscount Runciman...
...situation seriously threatened to get out of hand when Sudeten German headquarters issued a trouble-kindling proclamation: "The Party leadership is not able any longer to assume responsibility for the freedom and property of its supporters. We, therefore, withdraw the instruction not to exercise the right of self defense. Party members in every case are free, when attacked, to make use of this right...
...this tacit invitation to Sudeten Germans to provoke an incident, the British Foreign Office issued an exceptionally stiff press communiqué saying that His Majesty's Government "welcome the conciliatory attitude displayed by the Czechoslovak Government," have hoped for a "constructive response" from the Sudeten Germans, and that "the issue by the Sudeten German Party of a proclamation relaxing the admirable discipline hitherto observed by the Sudeten Germans is therefore much deplored...
This week Mr. Ashton-Gwatkin was back in Czechoslovakia, he and Lord Runciman conferred with Führer Henlein, and at these conferences there was "fearful rowing" according to reports. Viscount Runciman was said to have told Herr Henlein that he must stop inciting the Sudeten Germans to acts of violence...