Word: munich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counted, 12,363 were for The Master and 15,797 for Mr. Hogg. Said he modestly: "It is not my victory but Chamberlain's." Six more by-elections will be run off in Britain during the next few weeks and at these the public's estimate of Munich will be further tested...
...Council by Viscount Runciman as a "reward" for the Mediator's unsuccessful labors in Czechoslovakia. It was typical of ponderous British politics that not until last week did Neville Chamberlain name a successor to First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper, who resigned just after Munich because he could not swallow it. High-spirited young Duff Cooper was succeeded by the completely unexciting Earl Stanhope, who had been droning along as president of the Board of Education...
World War or Bluff? In a broadcast to U. S. listeners the British Foreign Secretary, long, lean Viscount Halifax, said last week of Munich: "My own conscience is clear. . . . The sufferings of Czechoslovakia would have been far greater had we and they acted otherwise. . . . The Government . . . and the Prime Minister . . . acted rightly...
Lord Halifax thus argued from the premise that Germany would actually have fought if Munich had not given Hitler what he demanded - a major premise now challenged by critics of the Prime Minister, who insist that "Hitler was only bluffing. There was no real danger of war." Last week Franklin Roosevelt said of Munich in the course of his remarks on the Dies Committee (see p. 7): "Three weeks ago the civilized world was threatened by the immediate outbreak of a world war. Cool heads pleaded for the continuance of negotiations. People may properly differ as to the result...
Prague papers reported that German artillery and bombers were pounding away experimentally last week at a section of the "Czechoslovak Maginot Line" which was surrendered after Munich, boasted: "The results of the artillery bombardment have been almost nil and only one out of 60 shelters bombed by the airplanes has been destroyed." The French Maginot Line, according to France's War Ministry month ago, is constantly being reinforced. And while French experts oversaw the construction of the Czech fortifications, it is not likely that they shot the complete works on the defenses of a foreign country. Nevertheless, it must...