Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From Munich: "As I was obliged to go to the meeting on Friday . . . against the Jews, I could not listen, but a friend heard your program and told me about...
...realistic French General Staff was reported to be contemplating occupying the Island of Minorca and Spanish Morocco if the Italian-backed Rebels win the war. There were scary rumors that the Rebel-held side of the French-Spanish frontier had been fortified. There were predictions that a Mediterranean "Munich," with Italy the victor and France the loser, was in the offing...
Bird No. 1: a serious labor shortage in Nazi Germany, caused by the gigantic public works program and feverish rearmament efforts. Bird No. 2: serious unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia, caused by German grab of Czech industrial areas and the pre-Munich influx of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland. Last week Prague and Berlin devised a stone to kill both birds: a plan to send 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed Czech workmen to Germany. Time: this spring...
...with his poetry, which best crystallized post-War pessimism, Eliot's post-Munich pessimism is not the paralyzing kind. "On the contrary," he says, "it is all the more essential that authors who are concerned with that small part of 'literature' which is really creative-and seldom immediately popular-should apply themselves sedulously to their work, without abatement or sacrifice of their artistic standards on any pretext whatsoever...
Arranged three months ago in the rosy afterglow of the Munich Deal, the trip was not expected to amount to much more than the formalizing of a standoff. This prospect was underscored when, much to II Duce's disappointment, the British stopped "for tea" with Premier Edouard Daladier and Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet in Paris. There they were informed once again that France will not countenance Mr. Chamberlain as a "mediator" to settle Italian-French troubles...