CZECHS’ SURRENDER
SIGNING OF THE TREATY DR. HACHA OVERCOME PARIS, March 20. Discounting the message sent to Herr Hitler a few days ago by the President of Czechoslovakia, Dr. Emil Hacha, extolling the “glorious German arms,” the Czech Minister to Paris, M. Osusky, revealed some secret history of the surrender of Czecho Slovakia’s independence last March. Dr. Hacha sent his message on the first anniversary of the surrender. Before he signed the fateful document placing his country under Germany’s “protection,” Field-Marshal Goering had to convince him that Herr Hitler was not trying to murder him, said M. Osusky. Dr. Hacha fainted when Herr Hitler presented the document for his signature, Herr Hitler summoned a doctor, who ordered an injection, but Dr. HacKS, 'fearing it was a plot to poison him, refused at first to have it. General Goering then ..bared his arm, stepped up and took an injection first. Dr. Hacha was elected President when Dr. Benes resigned after the Munich agreement in October, 1938.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20209, 30 March 1940, Page 5
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165CZECHS’ SURRENDER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20209, 30 March 1940, Page 5
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