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Europe's outstanding example of mass production in industry, the great Bat'a Shoe Co. of Zlin, braced itself last week against a dire economic threat. Recent German press stories have declared: "The Bat'a family are Czech Jews." If this charge can be made to stick, Bat'a chain shoe stores in Vienna and other parts of Greater Germany face confiscation. Even if not made to stick it may seriously injure their business. Actually, most of the Bat'a family are tall, big-boned, straight-nosed, bristle-haired blonds...
...mediator became official. His large staff of British Civil Servants released press handouts on crisp sheets headed "From Lord Runciman's Mission." In his first public utterance at Prague the Viscount created a great stir by thanking Sudeten German delegates for having met him at the station. Vexed Czechs made tart comments. Sudetens, learning with glee that "the British milord speaks German but he does not speak Czech," began referring to him as "Runzelmann" -which, freely translated, means The Man With the Wrinkled (i.e., Thoughtful) Brow...
...Benes; a short conference at his hotel with non-Nazi Czech Germans...
...visit of King George & Queen Elizabeth, gave Czechoslovakia a blank check to do as she liked about German demands, clamored that by thrusting in the cushion last week, Perfidious Albion had tricked Prague. There was some truth in this. Britain had seized an opportunity to check any Czech rashness which might precipitate a general European...
...QUARTET No. 6 IN F MAJOR (Roth String Quartet; Columbia: 6 sides). Czech-born Dvořák's U. S.-folk-music-inspired quartet well played by one of today's ranking chamber music ensembles...