Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will surely have many readers who will be disturbed by the way credit for the Four-Power meeting in Munich today is being laid at the door of Mr. Roosevelt, and who will share my concern lest Mr. Roosevelt or some of his less astute advisers begin to conceive Wilsonian ideas about the role of America's President in saving the rest of the world from its own folly...
...Spanish Leftists think they can make friends with Rightist Salazar, they may have reason to think they can make friends with Rightist Franco. In Paris last week, agents of the Leftist Government disclosed that a scheme to partition Spain-rejected by Barcelona-had been brought up at the Munich parley. During the Czechoslovak crisis General Franco showed himself definitely cool to Germany. Berlin was enraged by an announcement from Burgos that it would remain neutral in case of a European war. This week the Rightist Spanish Government announced that it is "preparing immediate repatriation" of 10,000 Italian troops...
Fritz Morstein Marx, professor of Government will brave the verbal missiles of his colleagues on the faculty, and those of undergraduates tonight as he speaks on and defends the Munich Pact in the Eliot House Common Room...
Earlier in the program, the combined string sections and horns will join in a performance of a divertimento in B flat by Mozart, K. No. 287. The piece was composed and presented in 1777, during Mozart's twenty-first year while he was in Munich on the first stages of his ninth concert tour of Europe. Mozart played the first violin in the performance, and prepared for himself a very brilliant part...
...follow the family trade of writing, instead became an actress under Max Reinhardt. When the Nazis came into power, although no Jewess, she was divorced from her Nazi husband (Gustaf Gründgens, now head of the Berlin State Theatre), and produced a satirical political revue, Peppermill, in Munich, her birthplace. For this piece of audacity she had to flee Germany and her citizenship was revoked by Adolf Hitler. She met and married Britain's Poet W.H. Auden, like her a zealous antifascist. At the risk of her life, she returned secretly to Germany to get some...