Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...month after the Munich agreement Prime Minister Chamberlain got a 345-to-138 vote of confidence from the Commons after outlining his revised foreign policy as follows. Britain must be prepared to accept almost unlimited extension of Germany's influence in East Europe, Japan's in East Asia. But, just as "there is room both for Germany and ourselves in the trade" with East Europe, there was room for Britain and Japan in China. "China," said the Businessman Prime Minister, "cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital...
...area around the strategic, highly-fortified British Crown Colony of Hong Kong, 100 miles below Canton, Chinese military heads decided not to fortify the city, left it defended by untrained provincial troops. Japanese commanders decided on the South China campaign only after Britain's capitulation at Munich convinced them that Britain had no stomach for a dispute in the Far East, Chiang insisted. In fact, Japanese troops were this week within half a mile of the borders of Hong Kong, inside which they accidentally popped a few shells, as Chinese regulars, out to recapture Canton, pushed their front...
...Rumanian ruler visited 10 Downing Street, he asked for a loan of $125,000,000 to case the weight of German economic pressure; in the light of yesterday's abrupt and vigorous purge, it may well be guessed that he received this--or equivalent aid. If so, the Munich Pact may merely have marked another surrender to expediency, no more serious than its parallels in 1931 and 1935. The transfer of the Sudeten Germans was not intrinsically unjust, and if the surrender of 1938 has stimulated at long last a will on the part of the democracies to resist further...
...published optimism of the Express paid big. Same day the Munich agreement was signed, auditors began totting up Express sales for the "crisis" month of September, found they had reached an alltime peak of 2,520,205 a day. In calmer October they dropped slightly to 2,507,137. No other newspaper in history has ever averaged above 2,500,000 for even one month. Crowed the Express: ''Peace . . . met the demand...
...Beaverbrook, Britain's frontier is not the Rhine of Herr Hitler, but South Africa. Beaverbrook's Empire is thus the kind that would sign the pact of Munich, and the Express now praises Chamberlain as a "champ" who has bowled over all his foes-at least in England...