Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tired of talking to people who say 'Yes'." Dr. Chvalkovsky last week became the Czechoslovak Foreign Minister, will handle many cards of a new deal for his country. He at once left for Berlin, where last week the British-French-Czechoslovak-German-Italian commission set up at Munich was drawing the new Czecho-slovak-German frontier while German troops continued to enter and occupy the zones allotted them and Adolf Hitler darted in & out of his new Sudetenland, alternating Sudeten celebrations in his honor with business in Germany. A fine, heavy bouquet of thorny flowers hurled...
...contrary, Berlin was becoming alarmed lest Poland and Hungary succeed between them in grabbing the eastern end of Czechoslovakia and fortifying it as a bulwark against the ultimately scheduled German push to the East. The whole Munich settlement situation in Czechoslovakia was fluid. Ancient nationality claims and feuds boiled up anew somewhere almost every hour in this tough corner of Eastern Europe where every little old people is supertough. So far as Germany was concerned, chances favored mutual agreement to abandon the holding of plebiscites in the area sketched at Munich and direct occupation by Nazidom of substantially that which...
...official Communist Party organ Pravda ("Truth") charged: "He [Lindbergh] had an order from English reactionary circles to prove the weakness of Soviet aviation and give Chamberlain an argument for capitulation at Munich in connection with Czechoslovakia. The bribed liar, Lindbergh, fulfilled the order of his masters. That explains everything!" Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh, according to Pravda, were "cordially and sincerely received by the Soviet people" when they visited Russia in 1933, but last August "nobody invited him [to Russia] and if he was permitted to come it was because Americans had requested...
...world's artists he remains a fool as well as a nuisance. Hitherto, Hitler has contented himself mainly with declaring what bad art is, has attacked all more or less experimental modern art as "Jewish" and "Bolshevist." Last year he opened a hall of "degenerate" art in Munich which proved a great success (TIME, Aug. 2, 1937). At Nürnberg last month, Realmleader Hitler, having awarded Nazi Culture Prizes No. 1 and No. 2 to Warplane Designers Heinkel and Messerschmitt, surpassed himself as an esthetician with a new pronunciamento on German art. Now, said he. "the true ancestor...
Died. Captain Herman Köhl, 50, German Wartime flier who in 1928, with Colonel James Fitzmaurice, Irish flier, and Baron Günther von Hünefeld, made the first East-West transatlantic flight; of kidney disease; in Munich...