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Fifty-one years ago, a famous British Prime Minister bet his reputation that no such emotions would ever reign in Germany. After returning from the 1938 Munich Conference at which he agreed to let Hitler annex part of Czechoslovakia, Neville Chamberlain told his fellow citizens, "For the second time in our history, a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor. I believe it is peace for our time....Go home and get a nice quiet sleep...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: The Case Against Reunification | 11/22/1989 | See Source »

...City Hall Annex, 57 Inman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Polling Places in Cambridge | 11/7/1989 | See Source »

After all, Radcliffe had its start as the "Harvard Annex," and its ostensible purpose was to provide access for women to a Harvard education. The history of women at the University, then, was always but a subset of the real story; women were simply an addendum to the course catalogue, an afterthought...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Painting Over History | 9/28/1989 | See Source »

...Allied leaders also did not understand that Hitler repeatedly lied about his plans and intentions. In a speech justifying rearmament in 1935, he declared, "Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affairs of Austria, to annex Austria or to conclude an Anschluss ((unification))." He even signed a treaty with Austria in 1936 promising not to interfere in its internal affairs. But he was an Austrian, after all, and the idea of uniting the two Germanic nations can never have been far from his mind. By 1937, when he called in his generals and told them to prepare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Part 2 Road to War | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...embassy annex in East Beirut is severely damaged by a car bomb; two Americans are killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Undeclared War | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

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