Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Europe buzzed excitedly about Mr. Roosevelt's ominous, mysterious "reports." U. S. observers guessed that he might be fighting crisis with crisis, as forest fires are fought. If European crisis-criers (see p. 19) were right and another Munich was really in the offing, his diplomatic flaring might give its makers pause. > Word was that the President would appoint Supreme Court Justice Brandeis' successor before going south. It was understood the new man must be a Westerner. Several names, none of them a standout, were in the air. Then something happened: a journalist friend recollected that extremely able...
Strangely enough, no correspondent in Germany reported that he saw anything extraordinary happening Feb. 10 or Feb. 15. From other places, however, came reports that backed up the newsmen's dire forebodings and gave substance to predictions of a coming "Mediterranean Munich" crisis...
...since Munich, however, has the British Empire been so obliging as when it arranged last week to hand over to Generalissimo Franco the Island of Minorca, one of the choicest of Mediterranean strategic plots. Lying athwart the French line of sea communications to North Africa and not far from the British Mediterranean "lifeline" to the East, Minorca was so strongly fortified (by British guns before the war) that the Loyalists had held on to the island since the war's start despite attacks by the Rebel Navy and Italian ships and planes. Nearby Majorca, bigger but not stronger...
Last October Japan took advantage of the demoralization after Munich to step quietly south and seize Canton, at the back door of British Hong Kong. Stepping just as quietly, last week she took advantage of the confusion of the Spanish war's climax, went still farther south and occupied the island of Hainan, at the front door of French Indo-China...
...Professor is laid in an imaginary small country suggestive of Austria on the eve of Anschluss, Czecho-Slovakia on the eve of Munich. Professor A., greatest living authority on Sophocles, is a democrat who, in order to quell a riot of Fascist and Red students, reminds them that Socrates...