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Synagogues were everywhere fired or dynamited. Numberless Jews of both sexes were beaten by mobs from the Baltic to the Brenner and from Sudetenland to the North...
...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...
...Belgian Congo will remain Belgian," affirmed Belgium's Minister of Colonies, Albert de Vleeschauwer, rebutting hints that Germany may get the Congo in the same way that she got Sudetenland (see p. 25). "We did not steal the Belgian Congo and nobody will steal it from us." Chimed Premier Paul Henri Spaak before the Chamber of Deputies: "The Congo belongs to us. Our rights to it are established and nobody can contest them...
...while French experts oversaw the construction of the Czech fortifications, it is not likely that they shot the complete works on the defenses of a foreign country. Nevertheless, it must have given the French General Staff an uncomfortable feeling to learn what German ordnance people were up to in Sudetenland last week. A somewhat kindred sensation would be experienced by a householder who has lost his key, watched a burglar pick it up and go off to study it at leisure...