Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early last autumn sober, learned Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong of the quarterly Foreign Affairs started in earnest to piece together all the threads of the Czechoslovak crisis for a 15-page article for his magazine. The more Munich was regarded in perspective, however, the larger did it loom as a milestone in history...
...tell the story of the complicated diplomatic maneuvering and to weigh Munich's results impartially, Editor Armstrong needed no less than 93 pages in the January Foreign Affairs. Even then there were still missing links to be supplied, such as a full chronology of events and official texts. Final result of Mr. Armstrong's post-Munich ponderings, published this week, is a full-fledged book entitled When There Is No Peace,* whose 236 pages constitute the first really professional, scholarly analysis of a year filled with Fascist triumphs and democratic defeats...
...Editor Armstrong the record demonstrates that the Chamberlain policy of appeasement was inept, vacillating, intriguing, unfrank. Appeaser No. 1 would first blow hot, then cold, would one day pretend that he was standing up to the Nazis, would the next concede an important point to them...
...judge of international morality is Mr. Armstrong. He is more interested in expediency than in ethics. "It is not for an American to say that Englishmen or Frenchmen should fight and die for causes which do not seem to them vital," he writes. Chief U. S. interest in the decisions reached at Munich should be the shift in Europe's balance of power, lessening respect for international law, lack of observance of treaties, collapse of the system of collective security. All in all, says Editor Armstrong, Mr. Chamberlain might better have adopted a motto implying reciprocity rather than appeasement...
...Armstrong Cork Co., manufacturer of linoleum, insulation and bottle stoppers, offered employes a "makeup pay" plan to bring their wages up to 24 hours a week if actual employment falls below that minimum. Its workers, depending on length of service, will be able to draw 54 to 120 hours' pay to make up below-minimum employment. Armstrong's President Henning Webb Prentis Jr., one of the more vociferous U. S. Big Businessmen, said the plan was "experimental," would be tried out at least through...