Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gallant lost causes leave sad aftermaths, and one of the saddest is the plight of the broken leaders. London last week was the temporary refuge of a Robert E. Lee and a Jefferson Davis of the late Republic of Czechoslovakia. They are Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk, two men who devoted 20 years of their lives to a cause which no longer exists. Like Lee and Davis, they did not know what to do next...
...University of Chicago has provided a professorship for Eduard Benes-as Washington College at Lexington, Va. provided one for Lee- as soon as Czechoslovakia's last President will take it. But the tired little man was seriously ill. His ears were being treated for an ailment which has affected his sense of balance...
...steady job was found for Jeff Davis, and none has yet been found for Jan Masaryk, for 15 years Czechoslovakia's Minister to Great Britain and the strongest pleader for his country in western Europe. The Nazi tied government of his homeland is now busy tearing down statues and paintings of Jan Masaryk's father, cofounder with Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia. Soon after Munich, Minister Masaryk's Legation in London, ordered to remove resigned President Benes' portrait, complied. A second order, requiring removal of a portrait of Jan's father, was not immediately obeyed...
Hope. If the Premier bosses the country, Paul bosses the Premier, particularly his foreign policies. Yugoslavia, too, has a Good Neighbor doctrine. Up to Munich its best Neighbors were Rumania and Czechoslovakia, which with Yugoslavia functioned as the French-backed Little Entente. Yugoslavia now is a key power in the four-year-old Balkan Entente- Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece, Turkey. All these States grabbed land from Bulgaria after the Balkan and World Wars, and the one thing they have most in common is their resolve not to give any of it back. They also are resolved not to be the puppets...
...Eastern Europe, 45 small Hungarian papers were suppressed within the last month, and new laws limited the number of Jews in newspaper jobs. Similar laws are in effect in what is left of Czechoslovakia. In Bulgaria it was announced that no new newspaper can start without permission of a special new Ministry. Lithuania signed a press accord agreeing that the newspapers of each nation will henceforth be "devoid of unfriendly tendencies...