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...Europe cannot fail to involve Great Britain. That such a war had been stalled but not stymied at Munich many a Briton was suddenly made aware. An old people, with a long tradition of troubles, the British have an easily recognized traditional trouble-shooting apparatus. With high officials sounding dire warnings, with politicians patching up internal differences, with smooth persuaders out trying to make friends abroad, it looked as though the old apparatus was being oiled up last week...
Despite the dire end predicted for old Gustl by Bemelmans' boss (who said Bemelmans would end up no better), Gustl retired to a pleasant little cottage in Monte Carlo. "It's always wonderful." Bemelmans mused, "when something altogether wrong ends right, without the help of either religion or the police...
...charitable subscription for refugees from the Sudetenland, arrived in Prague beaming with the news that his British fund already had almost $200,000 in hand. Sir Harry was shortly told by Jewish, Communist and Socialist leaders among the Sudeten refugees that money was "almost no use" in the dire emergency they faced. Within 48 hours after a Sudeten refugee arrived in what remained of Czechoslovakia last week, he could count on being flung back into Germany...
...does he protest because the fund is being raised in honor of a "champion of democracy"? No true American should object to that classification. Nor should it be an obstacle to the expression of good will to a host of human beings in dire need...
...policy against the Nazis. But British Labor was not willing to deny support to stodgy Prime Minister Chamberlain. T.U.C. refused to condemn the Prime Minister by refusing him cooperation in Rearmament, decided that Labor will cheerfully continue to earn high wages building British armaments. Cold also was T.U.C. to dire warnings by Delegate J. C. Little of the Amalgamated Engineering Union that in piling up arms under Chamberlain, Labor is making weapons which "would be used to bolster up the Fascist Powers...