Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give Hitler his due, he did not want this war-he certainly would have preferred another Munich...
...fall of 1938, Joe Kennedy worked with the appeasers, and although his faith was badly shaken during the Munich crisis, hoped settlement would be made, told Americans there would be no war in 1938. Last winter he changed tunes. With William Christian Bullitt, U. S. Ambassador to France, he became a prophet of doom, a skeleton at the feast. Again & again he croaked warnings that 1939 was a year of war. Certain it was that Kennedy was in Franklin Roosevelt's mind last Easter, when in bidding good-by to the citizens of Warm Springs, the President said...
Blonde British Naziphile the Hon. Unity Valkyrie Freeman-Mitford, "ideal Nordic woman" friend of A. Hitler, was stranded in Munich beyond closed frontiers...
Coordinator of NBC's system of full-time big-shot press correspondents in key capitals and comment from guest correspondents and political bigwigs is capable ex-Worldman Abe Schechter. Correspondent Max Jordan, who scored a notable beat for radio last September on the Munich pact, this time got NBC one of radio's press bylines with his short-waved transmission from Berlin of Hitler's 16 points at a time when transatlantic cables were temporarily shut down...
...British Producer Herbert Wilcox presented in Dawn a more objective edition in keeping with the forgive-&-forget spirit of Locarno. The third, made in Hollywood this year by Producer Wilcox and his brightest star, Anna Neagle (Victoria the Great, Sixty Glorious Years), was apparently designed as the appeasement or Munich, version. Released last week, it seemed likely, by grace of the times and its air of Chamberlainish understatement, to become one of the most devastating and effective propaganda pictures ever made. Actress Neagle's Nurse Cavell is much as history made her, a lonely Englishwoman running a nursing home...