THE CABINET: Indigestible Real Estate

In Los Angeles, Jan Masaryk, son of the late Czecho-Slovakia's late "George Washington," Dr. Thomas Masaryk, last week declared: "Now he [Hitler] has gobbled up the most indigestible people in the world. They will give him a bellyache." In Washington, Nazis got their first taste of Czech indigestibility.

When Adolf Hitler took over Austria, his Ambassador in Washington, Hans Dieckhoff, quietly took over the Austrian Legation on Washington's Massachusetts Avenue without protest from popular Austrian Minister Edgar Prochnik. Last week Dr. Hans Thomsen, German Chargé d'Affaires (who in the continued absence...

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