Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusions: the "peace for our time," which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed he took home from Munich, was at best only an armistice; notwithstanding post-Munich pretenses, war has been postponed, not really averted, to a moment more unfavorable than ever for the democracies; if French and British diplomatic forces were not completely routed at Munich, they were certainly obliged hastily to retreat and sue for what President Roosevelt later called "peace by fear...
...tell the story of the complicated diplomatic maneuvering and to weigh Munich's results impartially, Editor Armstrong needed no less than 93 pages in the January Foreign Affairs. Even then there were still missing links to be supplied, such as a full chronology of events and official texts. Final result of Mr. Armstrong's post-Munich ponderings, published this week, is a full-fledged book entitled When There Is No Peace,* whose 236 pages constitute the first really professional, scholarly analysis of a year filled with Fascist triumphs and democratic defeats...
...morality is Mr. Armstrong. He is more interested in expediency than in ethics. "It is not for an American to say that Englishmen or Frenchmen should fight and die for causes which do not seem to them vital," he writes. Chief U. S. interest in the decisions reached at Munich should be the shift in Europe's balance of power, lessening respect for international law, lack of observance of treaties, collapse of the system of collective security. All in all, says Editor Armstrong, Mr. Chamberlain might better have adopted a motto implying reciprocity rather than appeasement...
...After Munich, Ruthenia, easternmost district of Czecho-Slovakia, now called the Carpatho-Ukraine, became an "autonomous" region with only loose connections with Prague but with very definite though unofficial links with Berlin. Mountainous and largely barren, the Carpatho-Ukraine was obviously expected to produce for Germany political rather than economic results. The Nazis' Ukrainian blueprints nominated it as the generating centre for a movement to "liberate" all Ukrainians from their present Polish, Rumanian and Russian masters and bring them under the benevolent protection of Führer Hitler...
...urbane, witty image of Cinemactor Dudley Digges in appearance, expression and tone of voice, still a great teller of racy stories and amiable spiller of confidences, he wasted no bitterness last week on the men that so hastily and so clumsily deserted his country. His chief criticism of the Munich deal, said he in private, was that "It lacked skill, elegance. It was so, what shall I say, middle class-and I am the son of a peasant." As for his own people: "We are tough...