Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems less a party than an agglomeration of individualists, whose main bonds are anticlericalism, wine and good eating. The Radicals include able Premier Edgar Faure, who fears a Mendes comeback. They include such other ex-Premiers as slothlike Henri Queuille, the father of immobilisme; Edouard Daladier, the appeaser of Munich; 82-year-old Edouard Herriot, who fought German rearmament tooth and claw. And they include two diehard conservatives, Léon Martinaud-Déplat and René Mayer, who engineered Mendès' downfall. The Radical Socialists come close to being the fulcrum of French politics...
...Remember Munich. Only four hours after the President had made his statement, California's Knowland summoned the press and attacked the position of his party's Administration. Said Knowland: "I find it hard to comprehend how we could enter into direct negotiations with Communist China without the interests of the Republic of China being deeply involved. History teaches us that prior experience of great powers negotiating in the absence of small allies has not reflected great credit upon the large nations, and has been disastrous to the small ones . . . I refer to Munich . . . and to Yalta...
...called any grant of concessions to Communists equal to the yielding of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany in the Munich Conference of 1938. "The loss of Quemoy and Matsu have both a military and a psychological...
...resignation made him the hero of the hour (though others since have unkindly said he had almost to be pushed into resigning). But he did not follow through: he was too loyal and too well-mannered to challenge his chief publicly, as Chamberlain pushed on to the folly of Munich. Eden kept his objections to himself, while the Nazis and Fascists gloated over the political passing of "Lord Eyelashes." But Churchill at least understood and mourned the lost opportunity. "There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender . . . Now he was gone...
...full of health-giving nutrients found academically respectable confirmation in a book by German Physiologist Wilhelm Stepp. A quart of beer from his area, said Dr. Stepp, contains at least a man's daily requirements of several B vitamins, plus phosphorus and amino acids. Dr. Stepp practices in Munich...