Word: sudeten
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's new "realistic" formula for assuring peace to troubled Europe, namely, negotiation of agreements between nations to remove causes of friction, last week received setbacks from two sides. Friction between Czechoslovakia and Germany over the bitter Sudeten German question rubbed that corner of Europe raw, and the French and Italian conversations, designed to produce a Franco-Italian pact such as Britain signed with Italy three weeks ago, broke down over the war in Spain...
Nazis, who form a dynamic sub-minority in the Sudeten German Minority in Czechoslovakia, last week redoubled the vigor of their efforts to create "impossible situations" for the Czechoslovak Government of President Eduard Benes, a Czech. In their villages Nazi orators raised the cry that offspring of Czech-German marriages are "half-breeds!" With planes from Nazi Germany incessantly swooping over the Czechoslovak frontier and droning above Sudeten Germans last week, plug-uglies of the Nazi minority indulged with impunity in terroristic acts against non-Nazi Sudeten Germans. In vain a representative of the Sudeten German Social Democratic loyalists, Deputy...
...town of As (pronounced Ash) lives Sudeten German Nazi No. 1, sharp-nosed, hard-lipped Führer Konrad Henlein. He secretly left As by motorcar last week, sped over the Czechoslovak frontier into Germany, entered a waiting plane and presently alighted on the asphalt of London's great airport Croydon. Several times before Herr Henlein has visited England. Not long ago he pledged to British friends that he was "really democratic at heart," said he would never make his party openly Nazi. He did so a few weeks ago. Last fortnight Führer Henlein denounced his democratic...
...Czechoslovak Question boils down to how the aspirations of Adolf Hitler and his Sudeten stooge Henlein can be achieved without provoking a general European war. Such a war every leading Briton, whether Conservative, Liberal or Laborite wants to avoid at any cost, and thus in London last week Konrad Henlein was feted all but royally...
...Morally Bound." Orator Winston Churchill, an independent Conservative and extremely pro-French, had declared only a few days before that if the Henlein Nazis refuse to be satisfied with the highly conciliatory treatment Sudeten Germans are now being offered by the Czechoslovak Government, then "Britain will feel herself morally bound to stand by Czechoslovakia...