Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emergency that most military men imagine is that the Dictators might promote and support a military upheaval in Latin America like the Spanish civil war. Rather than back down because of unpreparedness as Britain was forced to do to Italy in the Mediterranean in 1936, and to Germany at Munich in 1938, an armed U. S. could call the hand of any Dictator who tried to trespass in the 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere...
...year in post-War Europe was more replete with hastily arranged conferences, mobilizations and general crises than 1938. The events which culminated in the historic four-power meeting in September at Munich and which resulted in the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia so fascinated journalists, diplomatic observers, even radio announcers that from their typewriters has come a steady stream of articles, essays and books on the subject. Most of these were sketchy, designed to cash in quickly on Munich's newsworthiness...
Early last autumn sober, learned Editor Hamilton Fish Armstrong of the quarterly Foreign Affairs started in earnest to piece together all the threads of the Czechoslovak crisis for a 15-page article for his magazine. The more Munich was regarded in perspective, however, the larger did it loom as a milestone in history...
...dead of night, Czech soldiers at the disposal of the Carpatho-Ukraine Government, aided by armed members of the SIC, a militant political organization under German auspices, advanced on the border town of Munkacs, awarded to Hungary in the post-Munich territorial revision. Hungarian frontier police and troops met them. A battle began in which the Czech forces used tanks, armored cars and trench mortars...
...Tell Men. Since Munich there has been a phenomenal increase in newspaper columnage about airplanes, big guns, gas masks, defense problems, industrial mobilization. They range from the expert military reporting of New York Timesman Hanson Baldwin to the jingoistic sloganeering ("Two Ships For One") of the tabloid New York News, but their effect is the same: stirring up a war psychology in the nation. That psychology has been on the rise in Washington since Franklin Roosevelt's "quarantine" speech in 1937. Publishers, editors, correspondents produce more & more newspaper stories about it, abetted by Roosevelt advisers like Assistant Secretary...