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Perhaps Benito Mussolini was sincere in his guarantees to the small States. But sincerity sometimes relaxes. Adolf Hitler was thought to have been sincere when he swore the Sudetenland was his last territorial desire in Europe. The nations of the world last week were stuffed with tinder. By entering the war as Germany's first ally, Benito Mussolini struck a fateful match. Whatever the immediate result of II Duce's participation, the long-range danger was that no man knew how far the fires of war would spread...
...Stricken Field is laid in Prague during the first days of the Nazi invasion of Sudetenland. It is the story of Mary Douglas, a U. S. foreign correspondent, how she got involved with anti-Nazi conspirators, her big failure when she enlisted the help of a British Special Commissioner and a French general in a scheme to protect her German Communist friend Rita. (Rita, romanticized mistress of a romanticized revolutionist, is refugee heroine of Author Gellhorn's story within a story-an artificial device, justified mainly by a climax scene which adds a graphic chapter to inquisitional literature...
...Eduard Benes, who yielded the Sudetenland to Germany without a fight (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), busied himself in Paris trying to get established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen...
...vote on E. P. Holton's suggestion about the British West Indian islands is no-another Sudetenland...
...bluff by military pressure, you can depend on us. For more serious business, we are not yet ready." A few days later he had taken over command of the Austrian Army. In September 1938, he said the same thing in almost the same words-and marched into the Sudetenland at the head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month, as motorized divisions began concentrating in Slovakia, in Silesia and East Prussia, Walther von Brauchitsch said good-by to his pretty wife and flew across the corridor...