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...Time for a Munich." There were, of course, strong opposing voices. To call for negotiations now, said Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd, would be like urging that "Churchill enter into negotiations with the Germans at the time of Dunkirk or that President Truman enter into negotiations with the Communists when we stood with our backs to the sea in the Pusan perimeter." Said Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee: "This is no time for another Munich. If Red China is prepared to expand its sphere of influence and territory in Southeast Asia, we might as well find out now, before...
...reckoning is at hand, Lord Cromer told a gathering of Scottish bankers in Edinburgh. The $3 billion international rescue that saved the Brit ish pound last November "no more guarantees our future than Dunkirk presaged swift victory in 1940." If the government is to prevent hardship for every British family, he said, it must quickly and decisively put its house in order by boosting productivity and cutting back on its spending schemes. Said he: "I only hope we face up to this need whilst there is still time...
...family albums, grainy vintage newsreels, and sparkling new color footage. Producer Jack Le Vien (The Black Fox) shows the great events in which Churchill played so commanding a role, from his tour of duty as a young officer in India to the disastrous Dardanelles campaign of 1915, to Hitler, Dunkirk and the blitz on the road to victory in war and ultimate peaceful retirement...
Twitching Thread. In The Valley of Bones, No. 7 in his series, Powell picks up the life of Nicholas Jenkins, his all-seeing narrator, shortly after the outbreak of World War II; it ends about a year later after the fall of Dunkirk. At 35, Old Etonian Nick is a somewhat overage second lieutenant assigned to backwater posts in Ireland and Wales, where he passes his time studying anti-gas warfare and reading Thackeray's Henry Esmond. The shooting war, which largely flows past him, interests Powell less than its effects on the worm-eaten aristocrats and upper-middle...
...weddings in the 19th century twined Rothschild men (and money) with Rothschild women. Guy entered the bank after studying law, then got called off to war. He was one of only three out of 26 officers in his mechanized cavalry unit who survived to be evacuated from Dunkirk; he went right back to France, was captured by the Germans but later escaped...