Word: sudetens
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...month, that Europe would sooner or later be offered a sudden and staggering proposed "Solution"- whether or not it be now accepted. Repeatedly correspondents have described Herr Hitler as bringing on the Czechoslovak crisis: primarily to break up the Russo-Czech-French alliance; secondly to get control of the Sudeten Mountains which have barred his "Push-to-the-East"; and only lastly because of the joy it would give all Germans to feel that their "Sudeten brothers" have been rescued from the euphemism of "Czech oppression...
...Germans in Nürnberg last week. He then proceeded to turn the annual Nazi Party Congress into a great, step-by-step building of war fright throughout Europe. The evident object was to bluff Czechoslovakia and her friends into the best possible deal for the Sudeten Germans and give Hitler another triumph to flash before his people...
...Germans believed this, Psychologist Hitler had laid the haunting ghost of the Fatherland-the fear of millions that another War would throw Germany back into the misery and semi-starvation of 1918. In Nürnberg, the Sudeten Germans' "Little Führer" Konrad Henlein suddenly arrived to confer with the Big Führer, went to bed with a very bad cold. Envoys of the Great Powers were received at tea by strict Teetotaler Hitler, and British Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson was tantalized by not being able to talk to the Dictator before so many people about anything...
...frontier which will be ready before winter!" Having thus suggested that Germany is not yet quite ready to fight, Der Führer swung into a threatening conclusion in which he vented his rage at President Benes' offer of 700,000,000 koruny as a pacifier to the Sudeten Germans...
...Herr Benes," shouted the Dictator, "to give the Sudeten Germans gifts. What the Germans demand is the right of self-determination. . . . The talks and half-promises of Benes cannot go on any longer. . . . President Benes has engaged in tactics showing that he desires to negotiate under the methods of the League of Nations-that cannot go on forever. . . . In Palestine the Arabs stand defenseless, and perhaps deserted. The Sudeten Germans are neither defenseless nor deserted. . . . I serve peace if I leave no doubt that the oppression of 3,500,000 Sudeten Germans is to end and be replaced...