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...Sudeten, Su-day-ten or Sudeten? Is P-r-a-g-u-e pronounced Pray-ge, Prog or Prar-gay ? Radio announcers and news commentators do not seem to know...
Never Prime Minister, but for many years a daring Colonial Secretary and a behind-the-scenes political power, Joseph Chamberlain brought to every conflict courage, the progressive humanitarianism and the trading (compromise) spirit of the Middle Class, anathema to aristocrats and proletarians. He had no occasion to study the Sudeten, Czech or Slovak problems, but in 1885 he did propose to transform the British Isles into a federation with five separate parliaments. He was two generations ahead of his time in wanting to give Ireland substantially the status that it has today...
...once left for Berlin, where last week the British-French-Czechoslovak-German-Italian commission set up at Munich was drawing the new Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter and occupy the zones allotted them and Adolf Hitler darted in & out of his new Sudetenland, alternating Sudeten celebrations in his honor with business in Germany. A fine, heavy bouquet of thorny flowers hurled at the Führer by an "admirer" scratched his face...
Last week, His Eminence, born a Sudeten Austrian, preached a plain-spoken anti-Nazi sermon at a youth service at St. Stephen's, exhorted 10,000 worshipers to "give outward testimony" of their faith. The "outward testimony" soon took the form of Catholic demonstrations before Nazi sympathizers. The next evening Nazi groups struck back. Storming the archiepiscopal palace adjoining the Cathedral, they hurled stones through the windows, pushed past a gateman, entered the palace itself and indulged in a little looting. Cardinal Innitzer, praying in his private chapel throughout the tumult, was reported to have been slightly injured...
...Keeping up-to-date, Pins and Needles, in its political skit, Four Little Angels of Peace, last week gave Angel Adolf Hitler some new lines: Now I've got the Sudeten There's no need for waitin', Ja wohl, all my plans are now surer...