Word: sudetenland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chust, Ruthenia's capital, a German mission arrived recently to form a "Ukrainian Free Corps" on the order of the Austrian Free Corps before Fuhrer Hitler absorbed Austria, and the Sudeten Free Corps before the Sudetenland was "freed." The corps's job will doubtless be 1) to undermine the civil authority of Poland, Rumania and the Soviet Union in Ukrainian districts, 2) to work up a separatist movement, 3) to create incidents which will eventually make "necessary" Ruthenia's-i.e., Nazi Germany's-intervention to restore "law and order," and liberate Ukrainian kinsfolk...
...Fascist Party since 1932, and His Excellency Roberto Farinacci ("Italian Jew Baiter No. 1"), who that very day had been promoted to Councilor of State.* The screams of all Italian Deputies meant of course that Italy was asking France to give her Tunisia as the Reich was given the Sudetenland, without a fight...
...devoted. They watched beefy British Labor leaders who took the money, who were interviewed by London papers as exclaiming "Thank God for Moscow!", and who then gave up the General Strike with about as much mealy-mouthed reluctance as served Britain to give up Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland without a fight...
Until last week one hope of the harried Czechs was that after Germany annexed Sudetenland all Sudeten Nazis would stay in German territory with their Fuhrer Konrad Henlein, thus ending the Sudeten Nazi Party's activities within the Czechoslovak State. Last week in Prague up popped Sudeten Nazi No. 3, Ernst Kundt, who was Führer Henlein's mouthpiece in the now-adjourned Czechoslovak National Assembly. Confident that the mutilated republic does not dare talk back to Greater Germany, Nazi Kundt announced that he and seven other former Sudeten parliamentary representatives would stay in Czechoslovakia "to promote...
...monasteries, arrested and harried the lower clergy. After the sack, Cardinal Innitzer (whom the U. S. Catholic hierarchy at its recent annual meeting praised as a "valiant spokesman") issued a statement denying that he had ever attacked Adolf Hitler, or that he had been silent at the accession of Sudetenland, and declaring: "I expressed my thanks to the Führer and ordered thanksgiving services and the ringing of bells for the whole of the Ostmark. I protest against the mortifying reproach that I placed myself in deliberate opposition to the Führer and the nation during those great...