Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusions: the "peace for our time," which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed he took home from Munich, was at best only an armistice; notwithstanding post-Munich pretenses, war has been postponed, not really averted, to a moment more unfavorable than ever for the democracies; if French and British diplomatic forces were not completely routed at Munich, they were certainly obliged hastily to retreat and sue for what President Roosevelt later called "peace by fear...
...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...
...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...
LONDON--Police posted armed guards around the official residence of Prime Minister Noville Chamberlain and other government buildings tonight after Scotland Yard received an anoymous warning that there would be "more bombs tonight" in a series of outrages blamed on the Irish Republican Army...
Thus, Dictator Mussolini could get at best only minor satisfactions last week from his Spanish allies. The gains of the "Chamberlain Drive" in the north were balanced by losses due to the "Anti-Chamberlain" offensive in the south...