Word: bohemia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from their coastal bases on the Italian peninsula last week rose the dripping hulls of 80 Savoia-Marchetti seaplane bombers. Their glossy-headed young pilots turned them north, over Ostmark, over Bohemia-Moravia, over German Poland and East Prussia and up the Baltic to the besieged shores of Finland...
...Tsars changed a nobleman's castle into a prison, was recently chosen by Adolf Hitler as the site of his long-planned Jew-sump. By next April 1, according to a German government decree, 150,000 Jews must be evacuated to Lublin or other "reservations" like it from Bohemia, 65,000 from Vienna, 30,000 from Posen and the onetime Polish Corridor, 175,000 from the Lodz district, 240,000 from Germany proper...
...with the Allies was being enlisted in London last week by Jan Masaryk, son of Czecho-Slovakia's late great Founder-President Thomas Garrigue Masaryk. Son Masaryk, unlike Dr. Benes, does not believe in the re-creation of Czecho-Slovakiain the old sense but as a federation of Bohemia, Moravia and Slovakia within a customs union. Asked why he was not carrying a gas mask in London, Son Masaryk cracked: "I used to carry one when I was a little boy, but I put it away years...
...more serious business, we are not yet ready." A few days later he had taken over command of the Austrian Army. In September 1938, he said the same thing in almost the same words-and marched into the Sudetenland at the head of the German troops. He occupied Bohemia and Moravia last spring, but still the Army was not ready. Last month, as motorized divisions began concentrating in Slovakia, in Silesia and East Prussia, Walther von Brauchitsch said good-by to his pretty wife and flew across the corridor to take personal command of the awaited Polish campaign...
...saying: "Hitler leads us to catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down with War!" was reported chalked on walls in big German cities. Slovak troops on the Polish front were reported sandwiched between German troops to guard against desertion. Passive resistance was reported rife in Slovakia, Bohemia and Moravia, with former anti-Nazis being rounded up by the thousands. The British Independent Labor Party reported it had received a message from German Independent Socialists: "Hitler begins war with Poland against the will of large masses of the population. German workers do not want this war; German peasants...