Word: sudetens
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...crash was scheduled to occur when the terms were published of a Minority Statute representing the maximum concessions which Czechoslovakia was willing to make to her Sudeten Germans. The terms did not greatly matter* but instantly the Sudetens and their brothers in Germany who have long practiced baiting Czechoslovakia (see p.30) raised an already rehearsed shout: "Completely unsatisfactory...
...German and Sudeten press gleefully asserted that by sending Lord Runciman Britain had "recognized" the Sudeten Germans. In Berlin, a prominent Nazi editor, with typical Aryan ineptitude, told to Associated Press (stipulating that he be not named), "No really sovereign state would accept an adviser such as Viscount Runciman. Can you imagine Switzerland, for instance, standing for such an adviser...
...made with Poland. Or that Hitler proposed that Germany, Russia and France should join in guaranteeing to Czechoslovakia a neutrality status like that of Belgium. Germany was said to ask some reduction of Czechoslovakia's armed forces, as well as maximum Nationalities Statute concessions to the Sudeten Germans...
...Everyone agreed that Chancellor Hitler, by means of an emissary, had assured Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that Germany wants a "peaceful solution" of the Czechoslovak Question, not a war. 2) None doubted that in Paris the British had urged the French to help induce Prague to make to the Sudeten Germans the utmost concessions likely to avert war, short of destroying the sovereignty of Czechoslovakia. 3) It was certain that Mr. Chamberlain's quiet aversion for the Soviet Union, plus his long standing resolve to draw Britain, Germany, France and Italy into a common accord at the first opportunity...
Czechoslovakian Maneuvers (Sun. 1 :30 p. m., CBS). War games described by CBS's William Shirer over short wave from Milovice in the Sudeten area...