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...Poles and the Irish, kept alive their national culture, agitated for liberation. The World War and Woodrow Wilson gave them their chance. Three Czech patriots actually achieved the nation's independence: gaunt, bearded Philosophy Professor Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, who died nine months ago; the Czech soldier-astronomer General Milan Stefánik, who was killed in an airplane crash in 1919 when freedom was in sight; and Eduard Benes...
Propaganda Funeral. Not so light-hearted were Czechs, although they hoped that the German-Czech crisis had passed. The conversation between Führer Konrad Henlein of the Sudeten (Nazi) party, which claims support of 90% of Czechoslovakia's Sudeten German minority, and Premier Milan Hodza on settlement of the Sudeten grievances, came to a halt last week as Führer Henlein journeyed to Cheb (pop. 31,500), two miles from the German border (see map, p. 15), and near the scene where two Germans were killed fortnight ago, to stage an impressive propaganda funeral...
With two more dynamite-loaded elections coming off, there was every indication last week that President Benes and Premier Milan Hodza will go the limit in an effort to satisfy the minority demands, short of granting actual autonomy. Last week, Hitler's stooge, Sudeten Führer Konrad Henlein was in Vienna conferring with German-Austrian Nazi leaders when Benes cracked down on his followers. All previous attempts to bring Führer Henlein to the conference table for a settlement of minority demands have been futile, but to nerve-frazzled Czechs last week came the reassuring news that...
...Throne, and he came out as a Monarchist in a public speech only a few weeks before the March. Significantly the Fascist marchers on Rome were poorly armed, whereas His Majesty had mobilized powerful army units, held discreetly in barracks and side streets of Rome. Editor Mussolini remained at Milan 400 miles away until after the March, then accepted the telegraphed invitation of Vittorio Emanuele to come to Rome and form "His Majesty's Government" as Premier...
...Political Science Quarterly for June, 1936, Dr. Megaro had previously attacked as falsified and worthless a nine-volume collection of Mussolini's complete works, printed officially in Milan in 1936 and since translated into French, German, and Spanish...