Word: godesberg
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Dates: during 1938-1938
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During the Czechoslovak Crisis many Frenchmen were annoyed that Neville Chamberlain, although he flew thrice to Adolf Hitler (Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich), did not fly to Paris. Instead, French Premier Edouard Daladier flew twice to London. Last week amends were about to be made. The Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain, accompanied by the Foreign Secretary & Lady Halifax, are to spend November 23-25 in Paris. Under the outward show of a "purely social visit," Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier will try to advance toward "general European appeasement" from the stage reached at Munich...
...dealings with the Führer, Mr. Chamberlain seems to think that the saving of a million lives was well worth the surrender of England's honor. His conferences with Hitler at Berchtesgaden and Godesberg read like the diary of a young lady crossing the Atlantic for the first time...
...will never attempt to solve the colonial problem by military force," barked General von Epp. "When Hitler told Chamberlain at Berchtesgaden, and again at Godesberg, that the colonial question remained a problem, he officially opened the negotiations. Our claim is to all our former colonies. Whether, when the actual moment for bargaining for them comes, we shall show restraint is for the future to decide. If we do, then we shall demand compensation for whatever we do not claim...
From Berlin arrived Ambassador Sir Nevile Henderson, who sat for Britain on the Commission of Ambassadors which settled the final territorial details of the Munich peace. About the best he could say was that whereas at Godesberg the Führer demanded 12,000 square miles of Czechoslovak territory, Germany has now received a grand total of only 10,885 square miles. More heartening was word that Germany would like to cut in with Britain on the forthcoming U. S.-British trade agreement. Germany would take what U. S. and Dominions raw materials Britain could not absorb, pay the British...
...corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which Adolf Hitler drew on his map at Godesberg...