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Second Munich. Less than 21 months ago Great Britain's Neville Chamberlain, France's Edouard Daladier, Italy's Benito Mussolini and Germany's Adolf Hitler met at Munich and signed away the integrity of Czecho-Slovakia. Since history turned on that 29th of September 1938, ten European nations have lost their independence. Proud and once dominant France was the eleventh to lie at the mercy of Europe's dictators, and history never recorded a supremer irony than Adolf Hitler's decision to settle the fate of France with Benito Mussolini at Munich...
...Neville Chamberlain becomes Prime Minister...
...Having examined Hitler's Reichstag speech of the previous day (in which the Führer demanded colonies), Chamberlain says he "very definitely got the impression ... it was not the speech of a man who was preparing to throw Europe into another crisis...
...tangible interests of his country were being decided on the battlefields of France to lose hope. The mistakes that were made in the past cannot be rectified. We can only look back on Versailles, the Harding Administration, Austria, Munich, and above all Spain. We now know that Hoare, Leval, Chamberlain, and the Vatican were wrong, terribly wrong. We can only say that the fondest hopes of Senator Borah are now fulfilled; America is isolated...
Thus, lightheartedly, Britons symbolized the purge which seemed certain to come soon. The general grumbling against Chamberlain was last week crystallized by the no longer escapable realization that the Allies are badly short of munitions, planes, tanks. In pubs voices blurted out: "Chamberlain ought to shoot himself" words much stronger than "Incompetent" were used to describe the former Prime Minister. A New Statesman and Nation editorial said: "[Daladier] has a more personal responsibility for the initial military failure than any single British statesman. . . . There is little doubt that his going will influence political developments in Britain. Mr. Chamberlain, Lord Caldecote...