Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fuhrer Hitler. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain officially and publicly buried his appease-the-dictators policy and announced that henceforth what happened in southeastern Europe was decidedly Britain's business. The British Cabinet met in two special sessions, and King George hurried to London from a week-end in the country. A faction led by Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, was said to feel that Dictator Hitler could not be stopped this side of Turkey, that Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Greece must inevitably be his if he wanted them. But Lord Halifax stood...
...openly. Some shouted "Pfui! Pfui! go back home!" But the only physical resistance Herr Hitler's tanks met was a volley of snowballs. Down in Prague's Jewish district there was terror. Two lovers shot themselves, a couple jumped from their apartment window. By week's end suicides had mounted...
...After the Sudeten question is settled, that is the end of Germany's territorial claims in Europe...
Much confusion resulted from reports of the ultimatum, but at week's end the main results were that Rumania agreed to give Germany temporarily a greater share of her trade while refusing to surrender any political rights. Discussions were described as "progressing amicably," which probably meant that Rumania would be as tractable as she thought necessary, would stanchly refuse to give in if backed by Britain and France. Meanwhile, just in case of trouble, King Carol ordered some 500,000 soldiers to man Rumania's western frontiers...
When great Finnish Composer Sibelius' Fifth and Sixth Symphonies got their first Chicago hearings, it was not the venerable Chicago Symphony but the sprouting Illinois Symphony that played them. The Illini played few symphonic chestnuts, never repeated a composition. By the end of last season they were giving even more "first performances" than Serge Kousse-vitzky's pioneering Boston Symphony. Some of their firsts were imported, some domestic. Last week they played their hundredth composition by a U. S. composer...