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Greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler...
Most other world figures of 1938 faded in importance as the year drew to a close. Prime Minister Chamberlain's "peace with honor'' seemed more than ever to have achieved neither. An increasing number of Britons ridiculed his appease-the-dictators policy, believed that nothing save abject surrender could satisfy the dictators' ambitions...
...lack of materials, the Germany Army has become a formidable machine which could probably be beaten only by a combination of opposing armies. As testimony to his nation's puissance, Führer Hitler could look back over the year and remember that besides receiving countless large-bore statesmen (Mr. Chamberlain three times, for instance), he paid his personal respects to three kings (Sweden's Gustaf, Denmark's Christian, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele) and was visited by two (Bulgaria's Boris, Rumania's Carol?not counting Hungary's Regent, Horthy...
Last week, therefore, it was bad news for Nazis when Lord Londonderry changed his mind. In a speech before the Empire-minded Overseas League in London, he called upon Mr. Chamberlain to pledge his Government not to "sacrifice an inch of territory or one individual" to Nazi colonial demands. For good measure he added: "We cannot hand over any population to a country which seems bent on exterminating a section of its community or on reducing them to a situation which calls for condemnation by every right-minded man and woman throughout the civilized world...
...world's great Christians, Dr. John R. Mott, they were delegates to the second meeting of the International Missionary Council. Among them were representatives of every Protestant and Orthodox Church. The 45 delegates from North America included the famed woman theologian, Dr. Georgia Harkness; two Bishops, Methodist James Chamberlain Baker of San Francisco and Episcopalian Henry Wise Hobson of Southern Ohio; and World's No. 1 Missionary Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, lofty-minded Methodist emissary to high-caste Hindus, who had just come from a tour of U. S. colleges (TIME...