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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secret documents are always published after a major war, years afterward as a general thing. But just before the peace of last week (see p. 75), His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom made historic haste, disclosing in a White Paper ten documents of the Czechoslovak crisis, hitherto secret. Although these did not quite tell all, for verbal encounters had been of great importance, they provided future historians with prompt and vital data, provided glimpses behind the scenes of the recent crisis...
Document 1 is the final Runciman Report, summing up scores of hitherto secret cablegrams and verbal messages sent to His Majesty's Government by Viscount Runciman of Doxford in the period from August 3 to September 16, during which the veteran British shipping tycoon labored in Czechoslovakia as mediator...
...Horace has hitherto declined invitations to visit Continental statesmen with the dry comment: "Thank you, but I am not one of those Englishmen who travel abroad," never dreaming he would have to fly to Berchtesgaden fortnight ago, to Godesberg last week...
There is an event in the history of the American Revolution hitherto little noticed; as yet imperfectly described, and now at this late day almost forgotten; which would deserve and require the talents and genius of a Xenophon, to do real justice...
Because Mozart was one of music's most fastidious craftsmen, the deep human and emotional qualities of his music have often been overlooked. This week the noted English Critic Walter James Turner publishes a critical biography of him.* With a hitherto untranslated collection of letters to draw upon, Author Turner shows Mozart to be a lusty, even ribald character, with a stout heart, a lively sympathy for his fellow man-and woman. Reminding his readers that Mozart's generation was also Goethe's and William Blake's, that its spirit was in fact romantic and revolutionary...