Word: sudetenlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Geoffrey Dawson, 70, small, toweringly conservative retired editor of the thundering London Times; in London. Before the Times's recent liberal trend, Dawson set its editorial tone for a quarter-century. Under him, the paper supported the Chamberlain Government's appeasement of Hitler in the Sudetenland, changed its banner for the first time since 1788 (it went back to the banner...
...treaty of Lausanne, fixing the country's borders, set up the small sanjak (sub-prefecture) of Alexandretta, between Syria and Turkey, as an "autonomous" region under French control. To the Turks, this Levantine Sudetenland, which they called the Hatay, was a symbol of humiliation. In 1939, Menemencioglu used France's fear of war and need of an ally to win back the Hatay for Turkey, thus forever endearing himself to all Turks...
...Europe. In February 1938 Hitler purged his generals' ranks, took over supreme command of the fighting forces, welded diplomacy and military might to Nazi policy. Six weeks later Austria was annexed. The next summer Nazi fury was unleashed in Czecho-Slovakia; in September Munich gave away the Sudetenland. Back to London went Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain waving a scrap of paper, croaking "peace in our time...
...affected in and since 1938." It was most welcome because neither the Atlantic Charter nor last June's British-Russian Agreement* have cooled the jingoistic fires over which Europe's exiled governments in London hash and rehash post-war boundary lines. The Czech hash has always included Sudetenland, which the Munich Agreement bestowed on Germany...
Until Dunkirk Mary Welsh was the only woman war correspondent with the R.A.F. in France, and before that she was at Munich and in the Sudetenland when Hitler's troops marched over the border. She was working for Lord Beaverbrook's London Express then-but when the Nazi tanks rumbled into Paris she lit out two jumps ahead, got through to London, and took a job on trial with TIME. Six weeks later Bureau Chief Walter Graebner called her "without doubt the ablest female journalist in London." And Graebner does not toss bouquets around...