Search

The partition and conquest of Czechoslovakia prove that the spirit of Munich is marching still. For one hundred glorious days, from the beginning of December till the new crisis, Balkan States breathed freely. There were whispers of British and French support; that the great democracies would take a stand on the Danube; that, above all, the heroic words of U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had not been in vain. King Carol of Rumania took a determined stand and crushed German agents boring from within; Yugoslavia and Hungary were not slow to follow his lead. The little states around the Great Reich did not embark lightly on the new policy. On the contrary, there was careful analysis; and they certainly did not underestimate the extent of German opposition.