Word: sudeten
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...last week in his native Zlin (which lies in Moravia well back of the Sudeten German district), Shoe Master Jan Bat'a, half brother and successor to the late founder, Thomas Bat'a, who was killed when his private plane crashed (TIME, July 25, 1932), felt obliged to make an answer. He announced in the Bat'a magazine Zlin that he had sent German officials genealogical data tracing his Roman Catholic ancestry back...
...British Government, although continuing to insist that Viscount Runciman arrived in Prague last week as a "purely private person," engaged a 15-room suite for him at the Alcron Hotel-long the favorite resort of Sudeten German politicians-and proceeded to pay all the bills...
...hats, and in every observable respect Britain's unofficial mediator became official. His large staff of British Civil Servants released press handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague the Viscount created a great stir by thanking Sudeten German delegates for having met him at the station. Vexed Czechs made tart comments. Sudetens, learning with glee that "the British milord speaks German but he does not speak Czech," began referring to him as "Runzelmann" -which, freely translated, means The Man With the Wrinkled (i.e., Thoughtful) Brow...
Konrad Henlein, the Sudeten German Führer, sent only subordinates to confer with the Viscount. The consideration with which he treated them was considered spectacular. Lord Runciman's program included 20-minute formal calls on President Eduard Benes and Premier Milan Hodza; two lengthy conferences with henchmen of Henlein, the second lasting until 2 a. m.; next day lunch with...
...appeared that the King, virtually a dictator, had acted forehandedly to keep Rumania from later becoming the butt of demands like those now being made in Czechoslovakia by the Sudeten Germans. Although Rumania's fine new Minorities Statute spelled definite progress, it was also an admission of the servile status in which for 20 years Rumanian minorities have been kept. They are now granted elementary civic rights. For the first time they can be elected without racial disqualification to State and civic jobs. The State will lend its support to public schools where teaching is in the minorities...