Word: bratislava
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...Bratislava. All through the fighting, leader of the Socialist forces was dumpy Dr. Julius Deutsch, Minister of War in Austria's first Republican Cabinet and ancient adversary of her Catholic Chancellor, the late great Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. The New York Times's sympathetic G. E. R. Gedye found him safe at Bratislava, just over the Czechoslovak border, guarded by a cordon of Czech Socialists from attempted assassination. A ricocheted bullet in his left eye left Dr. Deutsch so blind that he could only see the outline of objects. He was sick, exhausted, but eager to talk...
...Consider whether all territory adjacent to the frontier in which Hungarians number more than 50% of the population should not revert to Hungary. Exception: Czechoslovakia will not consider giving up the vital Danube port of Bratislava, once Hungary's Pressburg...
...these generous proposals President Masaryk sternly declared, according to Dr. Rajniss, that he is aware of certain secret overtures recently made by Dictator Count Stephen Bethlen to Rumania with a view to enlisting that country's aid in wresting back all Czechoslovakia's once Hungarian territory, including Bratislava. "The Rumanian Government have loyally revealed these facts to us," President Masaryk was declared to have concluded, "But . . . we still prefer to achieve a friendly agreement with Hungary...
Hangars, houses and steeples cance." "quietly The dropped into Super-Reporter insignifigance "above the foam of thickening clouds ... in the boiling fog which lay between us and the civil war . . . through the strange sky, in sane with sunset," to Bratislava. There, "everything was mad." The Super-Reporter's workaday comrades miraculously procured auto dark." mobiles in "that madness in the dark...