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During the crisis the Polish government had renewed its long-standing claims to the Teschen region.
1938, March 2001
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A POLISH NOTE was sent to Czechoslovakia demanding the cession of the Teschen area (seized by the Czechs during the Polish-Russian War of 1920).
1937, March 1 2001
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On Oct. 2 Polish forces occupied the Teschen area, and Czechoslovakia lost about 400 square miles of territory with some 240,000 inhabitants (less than 100,000 Poles).
1938, March 2001
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The Teschen conflict between Poland and Czechoslovakia.
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Theresa, fearing the chances of another struggle with Prussia, overruled her son at the last moment, and by the treaty of Teschen agreed to be content with the cession of the Quarter of the Inn (Innviertel) and some other districts.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
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Celtic Circle of Paris; M.ssrs. Bureo and Jacob of the Uruguyan delegation; Turkhan Pasha, the Albanian leader; Enrique Villegas, former Foreign M.nister of Chile; Foreign M.nister Benez and M. Kramer, of the Czecho-slovak delegation, to discuss the question of Silesia and Teschen; Deputy Damour, concerning the American commemorative statue to be erected in the Gironde River; a delegation from the Parliament of Kuban, Northern Caucasus; the
The United States Since the Civil War Charles Ramsdell Lingley
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My host was next informed that coal required for operation of the plant must be purchased from Germany, and not from the Teschen District, as formerly, the Teschen District having been ceded in the meanwhile to Poland.
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The Prague head office objected on the grounds that their plant had been adapted and long operated on a special type of coal from the Teschen locality and counselled that a change might cause trouble.
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There was not I imagine on the staff one single writer with the kind of ignorance that enabled Lloyd George to confess in Paris that he did not know where Teschen was.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Maisie Ward 1932
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They would need some one to tell them the amount of coal produced in the Saar Basin, the location of mines in Teschen, the ethnic character of eastern Galicia, the difference between Slovaks and
Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Charles Seymour 1924
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