Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomats did their jobs during the trying month of September 1938. Most notable group to be singled out on the King's New Year's honors list last week were men who commanded Britain's diplomatic front-line trenches from Berchtesgaden to Munich...
...George. Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador at Berlin, was made a Knight Grand Cross of St. Michael and St. George. Frank Ashton-Gwatkin, adviser to Viscount Runciman, the British "observer" in Czechoslovakia last summer, and William Strang, the Foreign Office Counselor who accompanied Mr. Chamberlain to Berchtesgaden, Godesberg and Munich, became Companions of the Order of the Bath...
Britain as a whole is probably prouder of the great Queen Mary and new Queen Elizabeth than of the peace of Munich. So their builders were also remembered on the King's honors list at the suggestion of the Prime Minister. A knighthood went to Stephen Joseph Pigott, managing director of the John Brown shipyards where they were built. The award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire went to George Patterson (Cunard-White Star's chief naval architect) and Donald M. Skiffington (John Brown yard director). Honest Tommy Rankin, foreman of the riveters...
...third party France fears most is Britain's Prime Minister, scheduled to pursue "appeasement" to Rome during the second week in January. France fears that II Duce will attempt to turn Mr. Chamberlain's visit into another Munich deal at France's expense. Although Mr. Chamberlain announced as his New Year's resolution that "Great Britain will not make any further concessions to force," many a Frenchman chortled over a disquieting burlesque. Shrewd Henri de Kerillis, independent Rightist Deputy and one of the most influential Rightists opposed to Premier Daladier, wrote for his newspaper...
...product of weakness and indecision. "Human drift and stupidity may attain heights beyond imagination, which observers are constantly tempted to ascribe to some planned motives." Nevertheless, the book is worth while for those who are interested in a variety of different interpretations of the historical role of the Munich settlement...