Word: sudeten
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Harry Twyford, whose instant reaction to Munich was to start a charitable subscription for refugees from the Sudetenland, arrived in Prague beaming with the news that his British fund already had almost $200,000 in hand. Sir Harry was shortly told by Jewish, Communist and Socialist leaders among the Sudeten refugees that money was "almost no use" in the dire emergency they faced. Within 48 hours after a Sudeten refugee arrived in what remained of Czechoslovakia last week, he could count on being flung back into Germany...
...over such a man-a Sudeten German Social Democrat-who stepped in front of my car," radioed John T. Whitaker of the Chicago Daily News from Prague. "His head was badly cut, but when I insisted not only on taking him to a hospital, but in giving the police a full record of the accident, he pleaded 'the police will be compelled to send me back and I will be beaten to death.' He explained, this mild, reasonable little Socialist, that the Czech authorities had no choice. 'If too many Sudeten German refugees collected in Prague, Hitler...
Czechoslovak Independence (Sun. 1:30 p.m., CBS) celebrated on its 20th anniversary with broadcasting from Prague and the U.S. Scheduled before the Sudeten crisis, the broadcast goes on by Prague's request...
Last week, His Eminence, born a Sudeten Austrian, preached a plain-spoken anti-Nazi sermon at a youth service at St. Stephen's, exhorted 10,000 worshipers to "give outward testimony" of their faith. The "outward testimony" soon took the form of Catholic demonstrations before Nazi sympathizers. The next evening Nazi groups struck back. Storming the archiepiscopal palace adjoining the Cathedral, they hurled stones through the windows, pushed past a gateman, entered the palace itself and indulged in a little looting. Cardinal Innitzer, praying in his private chapel throughout the tumult, was reported to have been slightly injured...
...Keeping up-to-date, Pins and Needles, in its political skit, Four Little Angels of Peace, last week gave Angel Adolf Hitler some new lines: Now I've got the Sudeten There's no need for waitin', Ja wohl, all my plans are now surer...