Word: sudeten
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Chancellor Hitler thundered that "there will be no more shooting against German racial comrades along the German borders." Since then Czechoslovakians have been afraid that some Czech frontier guard, policeman or soldier would lose his head and kill one of the little nation's 3,200,000 Sudeten Germans who inhabit the frontier strip along the 1,300-mile Czech-German border. One night last week, with the blatant Nazi sub-minority of the Sudeten German Minority indulging in a terroristic and propaganda campaign in preparation for municipal elections to be held at week's end, just such...
Incident. Two Sudeten Germans astride a motorcycle roaring along the road to Germany near the Czech town of Cheb disregarded an order by a Czech traffic patrol to halt. Word flashed ahead to the next patrol and when the motorcyclists again refused to halt, the guards opened fire. Both Germans were killed. Anxious local Czech officials explained that the guards had merely done their duty, that both Germans were notorious Nazi agitators and had been implicated in previous serious political offenses, but soon the wires in every chancellery in Europe were humming. The Big Question hanging menacingly over Europe...
...German press, which has been carrying on a vitriolic campaign against Czechoslovakia to aid the Sudeten Germans, splashed the Cheb slayings in blood-red headlines. BRUTAL MURDER OF TWO GERMANS BY CZECHS, screamed Der Angriff, newssheet of Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels PRAGUE'S APPALLING BLOOD GUILT...
There are two main reasons why Adolf Hitler should think twice before taking any cue from newsprint polemics and moving armed forces to aid his German racial comrades in the Sudeten territory. The first is that he knows that the Czechs, who have been preparing for 15 years for just such an eventuality, would turn their full-armed strength of 1,500,000 men into the field. The second is that invasion of Czechoslovakia by Hitler would almost certainly bring France, the Soviet Union, and probably Britain rushing to the aid of the Czechs...
...army in charge, the municipal elections on Sunday went off without disorder. The elections were the first in a series of three, the second to be held this week, the third in mid-June, proffered by the Government as one solution of the minority problem. Greatest howl of the Sudetens has been that while they numerically predominate in the border regions, their local governments have been dominated by the Czechs and their administrative posts have been filled with Czech appointees. Among the 1,500 municipalities voting last week only 48 were predominantly German. At last reports most of them...