First Vienna Award
By this award, Germany and Italy compelled Czechoslovakia to cede southern Slovakia and southern Subcarpathia (now in Ukraine) to Hungary on 2 November 1938.
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“Grusinskaya: I want to be alone.
Meierheim: Where have you been? I suppose I can cancel the Vienna contract.
Grusinskaya: I just want to be alone.
Meierheim: You’re going to be very much alone, my dear madam. This is the end.”
—William A. Drake (1900–1965)
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