Word: sudetens
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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...Since the Sixth Century this fence has served as a barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes, but never has its protective power been of such worldwide concern as in 1938. Inhabited largely by Germans, the whole length of the fence has come to be known as the Sudeten region, although the Sudetes Mountains form only the northern side...
Birth, Czechoslovakia, some 600 miles long but only 45 to 175 miles wide, has four provinces. Were it a fish the head would be Bohemia, inhabited largely by Czechs with Germans predominating along the western Sudeten border. The body would be the provinces of Moravia & Silesia, largely Czech populated, and Slovakia, thick with Slovaks, who are Slavs like the Czechs. The tail would be Carpathian Ruthenia...
...Germain, set the boundaries for the new nation. To give Czecho-Slovakia a natural barrier which would serve to halt a German push to the east, the Allies, pressed by France and England, forwent strict interpretation of the principle of self-determination and recognized the Czech claim to the Sudeten region, largely populated by Germans. Also included within the frontiers was a small Polish minority in Silesia, a larger Hungarian minority in south Slovakia and the inhabitants of Carpathian Ruthenia, formerly under Hungarian rule, who requested union with the new nation. Thus, Czechoslovakia today (see map) includes some...
...Sudeten Pains. The third and best reason for the President's optimism is his belief that he can patch up his troublesome minority demands, particularly of the Sudetens, and thus spike Hitler's handiest excuse for an invasion. Father Andreas Hlinka, leader of a Slovak ecclesiastical party, has demanded autonomy for his racial group, but his party polled less votes than in previous years in the recent municipal elections. Other minority protests pull even less weight. But one Czechoslovakian minority problem the world will not forget in a hurry is that of the Sudetens...
...mother was Csech. Any other country would hang up Henlein long ago. ... If France, Russia and sly England will help Csechs it won't be because they like them, but because they know after they would get Csech German would turn on them. Hitler wants war and the sudeten half Czechs and half German is not the reason but it would be his alibi...