Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year in post-War Europe was more replete with hastily arranged conferences, mobilizations and general crises than 1938. The events which culminated in the historic four-power meeting in September at Munich and which resulted in the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia so fascinated journalists, diplomatic observers, even radio announcers that from their typewriters has come a steady stream of articles, essays and books on the subject. Most of these were sketchy, designed to cash in quickly on Munich's newsworthiness...
...southeastern Poland (Galicia), a narrow slice of northern Rumania (northern Bessarabia), the eastern tip of Czecho-Slovakia (Ruthenia) and the most fertile and second most populous of the eleven major constituent states of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (Ukrainian S.S.R.). No great loss would it be for Czechoslovakia to lose undeveloped Ruthenia, with only 550,000 inhabitants, to a Hitler-inspired "Greater Ukraine." Rumania also could well survive after her Ukrainian districts, with 800,000 inhabitants, had been detached. For Poland, however, the loss of eastern Galicia, with her 5,400,000 Ukrainians, would be irreparable, while for Russia...
...CZECHOSLOVAKIA...
...Prague, were made a Knight Commander and a Companion, respectively, of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
...guns and shells bearing the well-known trade-mark Skoda, made in Czechoslovakia will henceforth go only to those countries in goosestep with Hitler. The French Schneider-Creusot interests, which since 1920 have had a big interest in Skoda, Europe's second largest munitions works, last week sold their shares to CzechoSlovak interests. For thus recognizing "changed conditions" in eastern Europe, the former French shareholders were paid...