Word: sudetens
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When Hitler spoke, the world heard a confused harangue which sounded both conciliatory and belligerent notes. Der Fuhrer again renounced Alsace-Lorraine, he promised that this Sudeten issue constituted his last territorial demand in Europe; and he did not press the minority claims of Hungary and Poland. But to a crescendo of "Sig Heil" he insisted that his present demands be met at once. His listeners know that October 1 is irrevocably...
Urchins distributed this proclamation, as adult Nazis had no relish for the risky job, and many Sudeten Germans bitterly complained that it hardly took "iron nerves" for Konrad Henlein to flee. From Germany came tart reminders that during the World War a certain Dr. Eduard Benes was a political fugitive from the Habsburg Empire. Indeed, he had fled out of Austria at the same obscure border point where Henlein fled...
...Neutral correspondents in Czechoslovakia unanimously agreed that the Sudeten Nazis had been armed not only with pistols but also with machine guns and that, in the clashes Henlein spoke of, the Government had used police in riot cars rather than soldiers in tanks...
...Excepting one district with approximately the area of no square miles, no part of the present Czechoslovak Republic ever belonged to Imperial Germany. Konrad Henlein and over 99% of all Sudeten Germans alive before the Republic was founded were born subjects of the Habsburg Kaiser, not the Hohenzollern. Henlein's mother was a Czech, but to him, as to Austrian-born Hitler, there has never been any doubt that Germany is "home...
...against about 10% then and volume of sales has increased some eight times, making foreign holdings and trading less relatively important. Last week the SEC and the Exchange had their heads together on methods of cushioning the inevitable shock that war liquidation would bring. Day after the Sudeten ultimatum to Czechoslovakia, volume rocketed to 2,800,000 shares and prices broke to new lows since June (132 on the Dow-Jones Industrial scale...