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...runways at Czechoslovakia's Bratislava, Brno and Moravska Ostrava, the morning planes for Prague roared off as usual one day last week. Aloft in the three state-owned airliners (DC-3s) were 85 passengers and crewmen. With them flew melodrama...
...many gifts of butter, meat, poultry, chocolate and liquor piled in on the Axa Hotel, where the Austrians were staying, that the management turned the lobby into a temporary warehouse. Flags flew in Brno. Pilsen begged the Austrians to visit its best hotel. And in two coal mines of Ostrava, miners promised to work two extra shifts digging coal for Austria. In hockey-happy Czechoslovakia the joke of the week was a cartoon showing a man carrying a bag overflowing with rare food. "Stop him," cries a woman. "He's a black marketeer." "Oh, no," comes the answer. "Just...
...Silesia stocky Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian Army group hammered southward from its Oder bridgehead. Konev's troops neared the gateway to the Ziegenhals Pass, and the Czechoslovakian city of Moravska Ostrava, guarding the Moravian...
From dawn until dusk 200,000 tank troops and motorized infantry poured across the border, successively occupying Moravská Ostrava, Pilsen, Koblovice. The huge iron works at Vitkovice were taken (according to the official German News Bureau) "so fast that Communist workmen could not carry out their plans to damage the plant...
From the CzechoSlovak seizure Germany will get seven major armament and several aircraft & engine plants. The arms factories consist of the four plants of the Skoda works, a big subterranean plant in Slovakia, the famed Witkowitz plant near Moravská Ostrava, partly owned by the Rothschild banking interests of London, and a government-owned steel works at Kladno which manufactures rifles, revolvers and sabres. Other valuable things produced by Czecho-Slovakia were the air-cooled Tatra and Walter airplane engines. None of the arms factories, however, can be run without substantial imports of raw materials. All told...