Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French and Dutch art dealers who were suspected of acting for interests in the U. S. Highest price paid (by Editor Alfred M. Frankfurter of the U. S. Art News) was $39,400 for the famous van Gogh Self Portrait which used to hang in the State Gallery at Munich. Manhattan Dealer Pierre Matisse paid $945 for his famed father's Three Women, from the Folk Museum at Essen. Principal acquisitions of the Franco-Dutch cartel were Picasso's Soler Family (1903), from Koln, Two Harlequins (1905), from Wuppertal-Elberfeld...
...anticipated by five years Japan's present at tempt to drive foreign interests out of China, an eventuality which the British Government at that time thought highly improbable. The drawing of the gorged wolves appeared on Dec. 2, 1938, shortly after Polish troops occupied Teschen, completing the post-Munich occupation of Czecho-Slovak territory. The Spanish dancers were drawn last February when France and Great Britain were preparing to recognize the Franco Government...
Neville Chamberlain invited himself to the conferences culminating at Munich, and took great pride in having preserved "peace in our time." But Nazis never thanked him for handing them Czechoslovakia on a platter. Instead, they have poured hatred on his head. Last week came the unkindest cut of Nazi ingratitude. Supersoapboxing Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels addressed a meeting of 15,000 students and workers in Berlin's vast Sportspalast after the news had been broken that, since the Polish Government has banned seasonal emigration of farm hands into Germany, German students will be drafted to work...
...offset this unpleasant fact Dr. Goebbels denounced "intellectuals" who "constantly nagged" the Nazi Government during the Czech crisis and asked: What would have happened had Neville Chamberlain not come to Munich? Dr. Goebbels roared: "I say he came because he had to come. He came because we had him so cornered that he was-to use a chess term-in check...
...bold and unbelievably ingenious in the ways of sabotaging the would be conqueror. They assassinate puppet officials. Throughout 150,000 square miles of territory in the rear of the Japanese Army they have organized "self-defense" governments. Some 75,000,000 people, almost as many as lived in pre-Munich Germany, help the Cooperative Committees and the Mobilization Committee of these governments. Boys between 14 and 16 years of age act as a special messenger service; farmers cooperate by cutting ditches and felling trees across roads to impede Japanese troop movements...