Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First elections for municipal councillors "since Munich" were held last week throughout England and Wales. There was no landslide either way but the Conservative Party made a quiet net gain of 20 seats, mainly at the expense of the Labor Party which suffered a net loss of 17 seats. The Liberals lost two seats, Independents...
...Spain the Prime Minister said: "When I was at Munich I spoke on the subject of the future of Spain with both Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini. Both of them assured me most definitely that they had no territorial ambitions whatever in Spain, and I would remind you that when we were apparently faced with the prospect of a new major war, General Franco made a declaration of neutrality and said he would not violate the French frontier unless he were attacked from that quarter...
...these make army life compatible to the independent Frenchman. And to an essentially pacifist people the price of peace, however dear, is less than the costs of war. The film shows the price: from munitions and aircraft factories (manufacturing 400 planes a month) down to the Peace of Munich, or compromise with cherished ideals. Less editorialized than most of Time's marches, the picture may be recommended as one of genuine educational value...
Attacking Walter Lippmann's plea last year for cooperation between the two countries, Baxter argued that it was difficult to accept the columnist's reasoning after what has happened at Godesburg and Munich. He pointed out, likewise, the difficulty of "making joint action work in the Far East," since English interests there are in the long run secondary and public opinion in both democracies is opposed...
Concerning the recent Munich agreement, Dean Matthews was very emphatic. "I feel strongly that American comments on the recent four-power agreement are based on a misunderstanding of the situation," he said. "To say that Chamberlain betrayed" Czechoslovakia is to assume that England had a particular obligation to protect her, whereas she had no more obligation than did the United States...