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...Czechoslovakia this week, even the redoubtable Belgian Sovereign might have shown less courage, resourcefulness and firmness than did President Eduard Benes last week. Astonished Prague learned on Wednesday evening from press wires that Neville Chamberlain would fly on Thursday morning to Berchtesgaden, bitterly observed that the violent Sudeten German riots which broke out on Monday night, directly after Hitler's Nürnberg speech, had been quelled by police and gendarmes so effectively that at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday orders went out from Henlein headquarters for Sudeten German fighting to cease and outlawed Nazi symbols...
Enough Rope. Falkenau, a typical Sudeten German town, was a flaunting forest of swastika banners on the afternoon before this Henlein order went out. By next morning not a single swastika was flying in Falkenau, and on the streets Nazis no longer greeted each other with the Hitler salute, as all had done the day before...
This neutral U. S. correspondents eyewitnessed. Dashing about in motorcars, they verified that only in the western frontier sector of the Sudeten German area had there been bloodshed. The north, east and south were calm "with business as usual," but in the west 46 had been killed by Wednesday night and savage acts were verified. Citizens of Habersberg gave eyewitness testimony that on Tuesday fully-armed Sudeten Nazis had besieged the local commandant and his gendarmes for three hours. When the commandant surrendered and emerged, they said, Nazis closed in around him, beat and kicked the commandant to death...
...been kicked, spat upon and otherwise insulted. Another woman had been shot in the stomach, made a prisoner, and taken to the inn, where we found her." Correspondents found both women in a hospital at Falkenau. Dr. Stoehr, the Sudeten physician in charge, hustled them out while the women called from their beds, "Let us speak to the foreign correspondents...
Schwaderbach- On Thursday, while Mr. Chamberlain was in the air, Sudeten German violence burst out on a much larger scale. Storm Troops besieged, captured police headquarters in the border town of Schwaderbach, opened the frontier to Germany, and marshaled such a heavy show of armed force that fresh forces of gendarmes who arrived were ordered by Dr. Benes from Prague to hold their ground around the town but not attack, lest the scale of operations amount to "warfare...