The Archive · 1938

Czech Army: Could Stop Germans for Month

Border Fortifications — Alone Give Such Hope

Prague, Sept. 20.

Members of the Czechoslovakian General Staff said today that their army would be able to resist the Nazi war machine for at least one month because of the highly organized line of fortifications in the mountain range forming the country's natural defence on the western frontier.

They admitted, however, that if they were forced to surrender these defences, the threat of a "blitzkrieg" or lightning war of two or three days duration would constantly hang over the nation.—United Press.

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