Word: czechs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Russia, like most countries, would like to have friendly neighbors. Finland, run by Ryti, Mannerheim, Tanner, and Linkomies, is irrevocably hostile to Soviet Russia. A relationship between Soviet Russia and Finland as ruled today, along the lines outlined by the Soviet-Czech pact, is out of the question. What can Moscow do about...
That night in Moscow 548 guns thundered an unprecedented salute to a great twin victory by two ex-peasants now be come marshals: 1) tank-expert Gregory Zhukov's drive to the old Czech border and 2) infantry-expert Ivan Konev's 40-mile thrust into Rumania. In spite of mud and flood-swollen rivers the Red Army was still on the march it began in December some 300 miles to the east...
...Seed. A powerful minority of the 2,500,000 Slovaks has long given the impression that they are all devoutly Catholic, anti-German, anti-Czech, antiCommunist, preeminently pro-Slovak. Their hilly land (14,484 sq. mi.) had been a part of Hungary for 1,011 years when, in 1918, the Versailles peacemakers joined Slovakia to Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia, and created Czechoslovakia. (Ruthenia, which the Russians entered last week, became a part of Czechoslovakia in 1919, was seized by Hungary...
President Tiso's powerful Prime Minister is Bela Tuka, an outright pro-Nazi who was condemned to death for treason in 1929, later reprieved by Czechoslovakia's merciful President Eduard Benes. A bitter anti-Czech, Karol Sidor, is Slovakian Minister to the Vatican. He and Father Tiso constantly remind Catholic Slovaks that most of Czechoslovakia's leaders in exile are Protestant...
Szell lives with his striking, chestnut-haired Czech wife in a Manhattan apartment so scrupulously kept that visitors are almost afraid to sit down in it. A devout gourmet, he frequently terrifies his wife by tying an apron around his muscular torso and assuming autocratic control of the kitchen. He resents all imputations of artistic temperament. Says George Szell: "There is nothing interesting about me. I have no hobbies. I am not melancholy. My accounts are all in perfect order. I am so damn normal...