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Over hilly Sudetenland and the spires of Prague, thousands of white paper leaflets fluttered down. Each night for four nights 2,000 plastic balloons spilled out 2,000,000 leaflets. That was the way the people of Red Czechoslovakia got the real story last week of how Locomotive Engineer Jaroslav Konvalinka raced his Prague-Asch "freedom train" across the Czech border into Germany (TIME, Sept...
Nuclear physics is a small, tight world, but few U.S. physicists have even heard of Richter, though he is 42 years old and by his own account has been working in physics for 15 years. According to reports from Prague, Richter was a Sudetenland German who got his doctorate in 1935 from the German University of Prague. He studied under Professor Philipp G. Frank (now at Harvard), who remembers him vaguely as a so-so student. Beyond this, he left no trace in the records of science. To most physicists his claims sounded as suspicious as his credentials...
Like the vale of Kashmir, Gore Hall is now nestling in the middle of an armed truce. One day a recognized territory of Winthrop House, the next day it was a victim of one of the historical accidents which have brought such grief to Palestine, the Sudetenland, and Transylvania in recent times...
...fallacy of the buffer state was the fallacy of any settlement arrived at by agreement with the Communists; the agreement was good only as long as it suited an aggressor to keep it. In the Sudetenland and at Munich, the world had had just such a lesson...
West Berlin's anti-Communist press called the treaty "treason." The Western Allies ignored the agreement. The U.S. did not object to the return of the Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia-it did condemn the brutal expulsion of its German inhabitants, most of whom now crowd Western Germany...