Word: czechoslovakia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neville Chamberlain invited himself to the conferences culminating at Munich, and took great pride in having preserved "peace in our time." But Nazis never thanked him for handing them Czechoslovakia on a platter. Instead, they have poured hatred on his head. Last week came the unkindest cut of Nazi ingratitude. Supersoapboxing Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels addressed a meeting of 15,000 students and workers in Berlin's vast Sportspalast after the news had been broken that, since the Polish Government has banned seasonal emigration of farm hands into Germany, German students will be drafted to work...
...Also the birthplace of the late Anton J. Cermak, mayor of Chicago, assassinated in Florida six years ago. There also Czechoslovakia's first and revered President, Thomas G. Masaryk, made his first political speech...
Adolf Hitler, triumphant, tried to conceal his jubilation. By threats he had cracked the tough little nut of Czechoslovakia and already could feel its meat crunching between his teeth...
...been caught in a corner, trapped because he had not dared break the first rule of modern French politics-never antagonize England. The French people might forgive Edouard Daladier for breaking his Government's word, pledged until only a fortnight before, that France would fight before yielding Czechoslovakia, but he could not expect them to forgive him for what he had allowed to happen to France...
...September, loud words emanated from London in protest, few from Paris. Months before, the Premier had said, "The role of Don Quixote does not suit me." His answers to Herr Hitler's moves this time were to be not words but alliances and pacts. Three days after CzechoSlovakia's conquest, with another crisis rapidly developing, the Premier again asked for and got his third set of decree powers, valid for eight months more. Thus M. Daladier at the end of his somersault landed right side...