in countries like czechoslovakia, infiltration overcame the obstacles.t first communist leaders pay -- paid lip service to democratic principles, treating the veterans with respect he deserves his head of state. but then, they whipped up left-wing populist feelings and to approve taking drastic measures to obtain not just the parts due to them by the votes but to take total control of the democratic czech state. soon the president was forced to , retire and died brokenhearted in virtual exile. in czech parliament, the new leaders made her debut with enthusiastic demonstrations of support. then in an exhibition of irony, they stood in silence to pay homage to an absolute member, the great liberal democrat, jan maastricht. he now lay in state after a fall to his death from a window, by accident, suicide, for murder, no one knew. for the communists it could not have come at a utter moment and if infiltration failed, there was always the threat of strength. while the wartime allies had demobilized, they had retained their armies. here was a powerful factory.

but get austria and a chunk of czechoslovakia, and all these things increase german power in several ways gets more land and people and the austrian gold and the czech arms factories. if the british had not leapt in, you would have only seen nazi power increase as the took over more and more countries and started extracting people to serve in their militaries militd their factories and basically they would have won the war with -- because there was no challenge and they would have turned their attention by '44 or '505 to how to con at the america. they were interested in nuclear weapons and building a bomber called the america bomber. there was supposed to be a transcontinental aircraft. >> i think that's all we have time for. tom ricks. >> thank you for coming out. [applause] >> books and signings will be available any auditorium. thank you again. >> that was author thomas ricks from the lit fest. the next author presentation will be a conversation about president kennedy, robert kennedy, and their relationship with martin luther king. that begins in just a few minutes. [inaudible c

paid to french president macron and he sat down for an hour with the polandf state, hungary, and czechoslovakia and which he went to a lot during his campaign and talked about the need to stop sanctions in those countries because of their refusal to take immigrants. , some of his proposals when it comes to trading finance have a lot of eastern countries were read macron what a directive -- wants a directive on postal workers, comic from poland and working -- coming from poland and working in france and being paid in polish currency. he said it is not fair and he wants a timeline on that kind of contract. it has not gone down very well for this country and they sat down for an hour. harsh words from the polish president saying macron was young and did not know what they were doing. after the meeting, we heard if you differently, it was a frank and open discussion. it does not mean anything was decided upon. the czech republic said it was the starting of a new dialogue. well maybe no changes have been made in the position, the tone between the eastern country and the relationship with the french

it was czechoslovakia. they became a model democracy by the '30s, and it did so not because american troops occupied czechoslovakia, but because of the czechs and the slow vehicles and -- slovacs and what they were able to work out among themselves. in short, if you do not look at the caught of the people -- at the character of the people you are saying you're going to democratize, you're going to get into trouble. well, this is what happened in iraq. do you know that these people really thought that democracy was just going to spring out in iraq? i mean, anyone who looks, anyone who has any background in the area would have said this is an absurd belief. and yet i can document that it was a real belief. now, i know what some of you are thinking. you're thinking that this was all a facade over something else. it was really the weapons of mass destruction. please, it was not the weapons of mass destruction. everybody in washington knew -- everybody was clued in that this was the calling card. but there are o

it was czechoslovakia. became a model democracy by the '30s and it did so not because american troops occupied czechoslovakia but because the czechs and the slovacs slovacs t they were able to work among themselves. in short if you do not look at the character of the people you are saying you're going to democracyize, you're going to get in trouble. this happened the iraq. people really thought that democracy would spring out in iraq? anyone who looks -- who has any background in the area would have said, this is an absurd belief, and yet i can document that it was a real belief. now issue know what some of you are thinking. you're thinking this was all a facade over something else. it was really the weapons of mass destruction. please, it was not the weapons of mass destruction everybody was clued in that this was the calling card but there oar persuasions, other arguments that are more persuasive. for example that george bush wanted to show his fur, george w. bush, -- george h.w. bush that he could do som

nobody in america makes trolleys anymore, they're imported from czechoslovakia so there made in czechoslovakiathere to portland oregon, reassembled and it becomes an american trolley car so you're going to see a lot of that. especially with all the pipelines being built, a lot of the piping that is made abroad. >> that was never going to be a heritage penalty yesterday. the premier of saskatchewan ported out that the one fly in the ointment of trump approval of the keystone pipeline is this by america provision or pipelines and as brandon warns, other countries are going to retaliate and so trade wars are really self-destructive. >> one more question before we take a break. >> darren, i really love your thing having lived in philadelphia and only drinking fresca and diet coke and having to pay the sugar attack on fresca and diet coke. but going back on the sugar subsidy, ron and i are probably the only two were around when the whole thing started. it was during the reagan administration and when it particularly did you don't mention the paper , very good paper by the way but the whole caribbea

include in its annual report saying that east germany helped the togo to build a printing press and czechoslovakia helped cote d'ivoire or whoever to build a radio station. you have interest in the infrastructure of these networks, and you would expect maybe that to be a place where the scandinavians would pop up because these were priorities for these new countries. i mentioned the permanent problem and the permanent question. the permanent problem is the word/deed gap. there's always a gap between what you're actually doing and what people perceive you to be doing. and part of the problem is you can never tell if it is working. you can never be sure your message is having the effect you desire. one of the fascinating things to me about researching this book was the language. the usa would report back on what is happening in these places, and they found that basically all of these places, especially if they had any remotely extraterritorial ambitions, they would themselves assert as they had independence engage in public diplomacy of their own. as soon as they got independence and before they cou

september, october, 1938, the british and french governments enter the german-speaking part of czechoslovakia, roosevelt showed where he stood by sending a cable to neville chamberlain saying, good man. he seemed to have solved the problem, given germany what it wanted, saved the piece for europe, saved the threat to the united states. . the situation for the united states in relation to europe became much more series of course when war began in september 1939, when britain and france went to war against germany as germany refused to withdraw its troops from poland. again, this was not how most americans thought. again, this was not how most americans thought. if germany was to attack poland, that is germany's business and it has nothing to do with the united states, but it very much concerned roosevelt, who was afraid what would happen if a major war developed and it had an effect on the united states. after poland fell very rapidly, divided up by germany and the soviet union, in which germany had made an agreement and that there was no land fighting, but there was a lot of sea fighting the

. >> just went to 82,5 start writing that czechoslovakia. >> i'm more than happy to because it's an incrediblyuse. >> tomorrow at 4:45 is when the bidding closes, and i know what you're doing out there, you're lying and waiting. we'll come back with the closing countdown with the dow up 26 points. >> after the bell, the congressional budget office report on the senate health care bill is out. that score will really change the outcome, or is weakerton too std tched in the politics ineaofhe poll i? you're watching cnbc, first in business worldwide so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like any medicare supplement insurance plan, these help pick up some of what medicare doesn't pay. and, these plans let you choose any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. you could stay with the doctor or specialist you trust... or go with someone

catchers in the 1970s and then sent to a zoo in the 1970s and then sent to a zoo in the former czechoslovakiackly. we know that scientists have tried their best to make sure they won‘t be the last —— he won‘t be the last. but it hasn‘t worked, has it? last —— he won‘t be the last. but it hasn't worked, has it? there is an ambitious ivf plan because there are two females that live alongside sudan. the plan is to try and she harvest eggs from them and to use sperm from sudan and some other white rhino is burned that has been frozen to try and create a new generation. we followed the process in the film thinking we would get success but so far there hasn‘t been. we don't want to give away the end of the film but are you hoping there will be a happy ending? is it scientifically possible? it is possible. we followed the scientists over a year and they were very confident they would get a rhino embryo. that‘s what they are looking for, a northern white rhino embryo. so far, it hasn‘t succeeded but they will try again this summer. so far, it hasn‘t succeeded but they will try again this summerlj so