Foreign News: The Prophet

"I do not know when it will break out; possibly in a year, perhaps in two or three. . . . The first to suffer the blow will b: Poland. . . . France will pay horribly for her betrayal of us. And Chamberlain —he will still live to see the results of appeasement to Hitler and Mussolini. Hitler will attack all—in the West and even Russia—and in the end America, too, will be in it."—Dr. Eduard Benes, Nov. 21, 1938, in London.

The prewar world got just a little tired of hearing CzechoSlovakia's...

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