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...Party repeatedly in August told British Mediator Viscount Runci-man would satisfy not only their "Little Führer" Konrad Henlein but also the Führer. Henlein asked "states rights" or "dominion status" for the Sudetens, and the Czechoslovak Government reluctantly consented. In the traditional British role of "broker" in major quarrels on the Continent, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, after ascertaining fortnight ago that France was ready to yield and join in causing Czechoslovakia to yield still more than anyone would have believed possible, struck at Berchtesgaden a bargain frankly advantageous to Germany, but also a bargain which avoided...
Actually Neville Chamberlain had spent three hours with Adolf Hitler, still trying to act as broker for Peace, studying newly drafted documents and a map freshly traced in red ink (see cut). This was the Hitler Map, the fatal red-inking of his Godesberg Demands. But there was also a Chamberlain Map, showing what Czechoslovakia, Britain and France remained ready this week to give Germany. A German communique announced that the Godesberg Negotiations had been "friendly," and Neville Chamberlain on arriving in London said: "I trust that all concerned will continue their efforts to solve the Czechoslovak problem peacefully, because...
Born. To Peggy Conklin, 29, sometime cinemactress (The President Vanishes), stage star (The Petrified Forest; Yes, My Darling Daughter), and her Manhattan broker husband, James Daniel Thompson: their first child, a daughter; in Greenwich, Conn...
...YORK--J. Smith Foresee, 31 year old Chicago grain broker, completed his 600-hole, coast-to coast golf marathon at 10:20 tonight...
Architecture, Banking, 4 each; Advertising, Astronomy, Certified Accountant, Biological Research, Electrical Communications, History, Museum Work, Sociologist, 2 each; Army Officer, Stage Design, Furniture Design, Engineering, Astrophysics, Accountant, Cotton, Paint, Shipping, Broker, Biochemistry, Organic Chemistry, Dentistry, Dramatics, Forestry, Mathematics, Orchestra Conductor, Radio, Oil Geology, Oil Industry, Meteorology, 1 each...