Word: czechoslovak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Czech undergraduates at historic Prague University were roused to fury last week as death came to their 22-year-old political martyr, Medical Student Jan Opletal. On Oct. 28 he went out to celebrate Czechoslovak "Independence Day" and was brought home with six revolver bullets in his body. Shouting "Long Live Freedom!" and "Away With the Murderers!" his mourners marched with torchlights to Vinohradsky Square...
Last week, as a Prince came of age in Rumania amid pomp and medal-pinning, an idea came of age in Germany-in that part of Germany which was once Czecho-Slovakia-amid the deepest sadness. The occasion was the 21st anniversary of the establishment of the CzechoSlovak Republic, 21st birthday of the idea of national self-determination, freedom for the little, liberty for the helpless. The sadness was the more poignant because no trace of liberty could be found in the celebrations...
...Eduard Benes, who yielded the Sudetenland to Germany without a fight (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), busied himself in Paris trying to get established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen...
Last year when that peace was broken, Lindbergh again blamed the U. S. press. After the Munich agreement, a radical mimeograph published in London the charge that a semiofficial report made by Lindbergh at a banquet of the Cliveden Set influenced Britain's decision to assent to the CzechoSlovak grab. The story got more attention in the U. S. than in Europe. Liberals denounced...
...almost all the CzechoSlovak loot could eventually have been acquired by "gentle pressure" without actual occupation. In moving into Czecho-Slovakia the Führer abandoned his previous policy of trying to create a string of ideological vassals (such as Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia showed signs of becoming), economically subservient but nominally independent...