Word: sudetens
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...first time since the beginning of the Sudeten Crisis, Czechoslovakia's Parliament met last week. Although the legislators were substantially those who sat in Parliament before its adjournment, their party line-up was drastically changed. Pressed by Germany to remold" Czechoslovakia along totalitarian lines, the Government, five days before the session met. ordered all parties supporting it to dissolve, join one big State Party for National Unity. The Czech Agrarian and Czech National Socialist groups, the Fascist National League and part of the Czech People's Catholic Party complied. The minority Socialists, Communists and dissident Catholic deputies...
...Chamberlain, by sacrificing the gangrenous Sudeten areas of Czechoslovakia, has saved the lives of millions of men, women and children. But if it had come to war the invincible British Air Force would have smashed the Nazi and Fascist power for ever...
...addition, the monotonous world-wide setbacks to Russian and Communist aims and prestige-from the collapse of Bela Kun in Hungary (1919) to the desperate plight of Spanish Leftists today-has discouraged many a Party member through the world. And since the Sudeten crisis, the latest triumph of Fascism, many devoted revolutionaries have bailed out of the Party...
Until last week one hope of the harried Czechs was that after Germany annexed Sudetenland all Sudeten Nazis would stay in German territory with their Fuhrer Konrad Henlein, thus ending the Sudeten Nazi Party's activities within the Czechoslovak State. Last week in Prague up popped Sudeten Nazi No. 3, Ernst Kundt, who was Führer Henlein's mouthpiece in the now-adjourned Czechoslovak National Assembly. Confident that the mutilated republic does not dare talk back to Greater Germany, Nazi Kundt announced that he and seven other former Sudeten parliamentary representatives would stay in Czechoslovakia "to promote...
...respectability, the eight Nazis formed a parliamentary "Club of German National Socialist Deputies and Senators of Czechoslovakia." Its announced aims: to promote peaceful relationships between persons of German blood remaining within the republic and to develop "understanding" between Germans, Czechs, Slovaks and Ruthenians. Its probable aim: to keep the Sudeten Nazi caldron bubbling as long as it is useful to Adolf Hitler...