Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Munich, Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Hitler very ably appeased each other. Mr. Chamberlain by giving in, Mr. Hitler by declaring his good intentions. The big unsettled question about President Roosevelt's business-appeasement policy is whether it is the Chamberlain or Hitler kind. Last week it looked more like the Hitler kind when the head of the Federal Reserve Board, Marriner Eccles (the New Deal's prime advocate of spending for recovery), appeared before a Senate committee and gave Congress a lusty double dare. He challenged it to try economy. Said...
Harwood Uses "After Munich...
Harwood used as his passage "After Munich", from Neville Chamberlain's September speech, while Blackwell delivered excerpts from Stephen Vincent Benet's "John Brown's Body." "Patterns of Survival" by John H. Bradley was Whittier's passage and Thomas a Becket's Christmas Sermon as rendered by T. S. Eliot '10 in his "Murder in the Cathedral" was chosen by Bernard Rivin...
...surprise of France and England, Aggrandizer Hitler took the Sudetenland on Oct.1, 1938-area: some 10,800 square miles; population: some 3,500,000; resources: rich deposits of coal and iron, highly developed industries principally textiles, glassware, chemicals. According to Neville Chamberlain, the Führer said at Munich...
Carpatho-Ukraine, since Munich, was the centre of Führer Hitler's Ukrainian autonomy movement. Perhaps last week the Führer figured that since he was soon going to have all he wanted of Eastern Europe anyway, he might just as well let the Hungarians take Carpatho-Ukraine for him. It was noteworthy that the Hungarian Parliament quickly passed stringent anti-Semitic bills. Chances were that Ferenc Szalasi, imprisoned Nazi leader, would soon be released. Uneasy over the future, Hungary was careful to conform to Nazi "ideals" last week...