Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...real purpose of Carol's visit was to wangle financial and political support for Rumania from the British Government and London financial circles. In the days before Munich, Britain and France were liberal with credits to the small States of Europe, in the belief that such grants could stave off German commercial expansion. But with the Munich Pact and British Prime Minister Chamberlain's open admission that it is Germany's natural position to dominate trade in the Danubian basin, Britain's purse strings have been pulled tight. Last week Carol reportedly asked: 1) loan...
Just before leaving London to visit Paris this week, Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons that he is once more appealing to Adolf Hitler to continue the Munich work of "appeasement" in general. In so doing he revealed what may yet prove to be the most important international event since Munich, the efforts which the British Government is making to find a home for Germany's Jews. Having queried all the colonies, he revealed that the Governor of Tanganyika has put at his disposal 50,000 acres on which to settle Jewish men, their families...
...Berlin 8,000 Jewish apartments were marked for appropriation by Nazi tenants. In Munich police officers raided rich Jewish homes for art objects. The Nazi press reached its highest pitch of hysteria...
Because the Duchess of Atholl spoke out against the Peace of Munich, the Kinross and West Perth Unionist Association (a Conservative Party political club) refused to renominate her for the House of Commons, where she has served 13 years. Thereupon the Duke, who was president of the club, resigned, declared his wife would stand her next election as an independent, snapped: "And she's bound to be elected...
...negoiations were said to be progressing "favorably" with the Dominican Republic whose minister to Berlin tonight was en route to Munich, perhaps for consultation with Chancellor Adolf Hitler...