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...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...
...Chamberlain has come to regard his gamp as a necessary part of his journeys abroad and last week, before pursuing "appeasement" to Rome, he told friends the story of an old lady with an umbrella, who, pursued by a lion, suddenly turned, unfurled her weapon and scared the beast away. Concluded Mr. Chamberlain: "And I am taking my umbrella to Rome...
...more familiar to Europeans than Anthony Eden's famed black Homburg is British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's black, rolled umbrella. Last week a newshawk from the London Daily Express sought out the salesman from whom Mr. Chamberlain bought it. With characteristic British clarity, the salesman described it: "It's what one might call a Rolls-Royce of an umbrella, natty but quiet, solid but a light dasher. The sort of umbrella which becomes part...
...Chamberlain had a chance to unfurl his umbrella but once-during a thunderstorm, which Rome wisecrackers said had been ordered by God to show that the rolled umbrella really opened. While he certainly did not scare II Duce with it, on this appeasement trip, at any rate, Mr. Chamberlain was not scared into giving anything away. Nothing good went Italy's way and nothing bad went Britain's. In this way Britain came off with a sort of negative triumph...
...much more than the formalizing of a standoff. This prospect was underscored when, much to II Duce's disappointment, the British stopped "for tea" with Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet in Paris. There they were informed once again that France will not countenance Mr. Chamberlain as a "mediator" to settle Italian-French troubles...