Word: slovakia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican platform. The union of Germany and Austria has for 100 years been the dream of German Imperialists and, with Austria allegedly no longer able to subsist in its present shadow of its former self, the dream has come within an ace of reality. The main obstacle is Czecho-Slovakia, although there is considerable, but not insuperable, opinion against the move in Austria. However, Herr Marx's plank was received with wild joy and termed a courageous dictum...
...submit to arbitration any dispute over this eastern boundary. This means nothing less than that Germany has renounced her claim to Alsace and Lorraine, but is not disposed to recognize the eastern boundary which cuts Prussia in two at its northern extremity and divides Germany from Poland, Czecho-Slovakia and Austria...
...British proposals, France had a ready answer. So far as the eastern frontier was concerned, she welcomed British support, but France had other obligations. She was bound by treaties of alliance to Poland and Czecho-Slovakia, whose western frontiers Germany evidently did not recognize. Premier Herriot took this to mean that Germany would seek revision of the territorial clauses of the Versailles Treaty* and that France would be bound to attack such an attitude...
Although the security talk is only beginning, its seriousness can be gauged by the fact that Rumania and Czecho-Slovakia were all week in hectic telegraphic communication with the Quai d'Orsay, and the Polish Foreign Minister made a special trip to Paris to influence the French Government against taking any step to terminate the existing treaty of alliance. Meantime, France has apparently to choose between having Britain for an ally or maintaining her treaty relations with the Central European Powers...
...Prague. The children from each region presented the President with a simple present and each child was presented with a small present from the President. Among the gifts the President received were: national emblem from Bohemia, basket of painted eggs from Moravia, a doll in Slovak costume from Slovakia, decorated plates from Silesia...