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Show Their Battle Smashed Czech Democracy ? i , 7 I T ' t ; il . . 4 ---J Dr Josenh Tiso left, premier of the new "independent" nation of Slovakia, whose demand for Slovakian autoLmy Tdeance o ' Dr. Emit Hacha. right, president of the "SIS? d7 T so estab 20-year-old democracy's destruction. Supported by Rekhsfuehrer Adolf H.tler of Ge many, Tiso lished an independent Slovakia. Meanwhile the easternmost Czech prov ince Ruthenia overrun by Hungarian, Rumanian and Polish soldiers, each seeking their share of spoils. The central rrague government, left with only Bohemia and Moravia, was subdued under Hitler s thumb. |