Word: sudeten
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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Next morning, motoring to Germany with William F. Rueff, U. S. art student resident in Munich, a young British journalist and a Sudeten German deputy in the Czech Parliament, Unity's car was brought to a halt by military police in a military area...
Although Führer Adolf Hitler's main plank is return of all German minorities to the Reich fold, his passiveness toward the South Tyroleans has contrasted with his agitation for the Sudeten Germans of Czechoslovakia. To South-Tyrolean Anschluss agitation the Führer has lately turned a cold shoulder, has declared Italy's present frontiers inviolable, has let the word be passed around that Ally Mussolini should not be embarrassed by Nazi agitation for a German Tyrol...
Most observers agree that the minority Sudetens have a legitimate grievance. In 1920 the horseshoe mountainous strip was deliberately added to the new fish-shaped State by the Allied peacemakers by the Treaty of Saint-Germain, in order to set up a natural fortification barrier against Germany. This gave the new Czechoslovak State a population 22% German. The Sudetens lost their German and Austrian markets. Some Sudeten factories shut down, others were taken over by Czechs. Although the Sudetens form almost 100% blocs in some sections, Czech police and local officials were appointed to administer their affairs. Czech workers gradually...
...cede the area to Germany or to allow it to fall into Germany's hands would be virtual suicide for Czechoslovakia. At one point the Sudeten area reaches to within 20 miles of the nation's capital. Containing the extensive "Maginot" line of fortifications, constructed with French aid and almost as effective as France's Maginot line, loss of the region would lay Czechoslovakia wide open to military rape. Located within the Sudeten rim are most of Czechoslovakia's industries, of her coal and iron resources. The famed Skoda munitions plant at Pilsen, dangerously near...
...grim reminder that German-Czech relations are still on edge met every voter at the polls. Alongside the ballot boxes stood collection boxes for Czechoslovakia's defense fund. Although the balloting in the rest of the country went on to a patriotic jingle of hellers, in the Sudeten area the vote was sullen, clinkless...