Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swapping of a few parallels, and the concession of a few months, they gained immeasurable prestige for their unexpected "generosity." In Asia the balance of power was swinging to the Reds; in Europe the Communist dove of peace flew high. Inevitably, the settlement was compared with the "peace" at Munich in 1938. This peace was different; it was a surrender after defeat in battle. But in a sense, it was worse, for it was negotiated with full knowledge of the folly of Munich...
...Meany said: "The policy of massive retaliation, which was put forward in the early spring as the policy of the Eisenhower Administration, has vanished into thin air. Let us hope that it will not be replaced by a policy of massive appeasement on a world scale that would make Munich of 16 years ago pale into insignificance...
Mendès' critics seemed less perturbed by Geneva itself than by their fear that Mendes might get too much of the credit. Only Georges Bidault dared to compare Geneva to Munich; he drew only skimpy applause from his own Roman Catholic M.R.P. Party, and short shrift from Mendès. By a thundering vote, of 462 to 13, with 152 absent or abstaining (the latter mostly from Bidault's M.R.P.), the Assembly hailed "the cessation of hostilities in Indo-China, due in large measure to the decisive action of the Premier...
Sixteen years ago, Neville Chamberlain returned from Munich, his furled umbrella in one hand, a piece of paper in the other, and rode through cheering crowds from Heston aerodrome to No. 10 Downing Street. To the crowd gathered before his door in Downing Street he proclaimed: "For the second time in our history a British Prime Minister has returned from Germany bringing peace with honor." King George VI welcomed him at Buckingham Palace; Britons stood in the rain cheering him as he declared, "I believe it is peace for our time...
...comparison between Munich and Geneva, so widely made last week, was also widely resented by those who argued that Eden and Mendès-France had only done what had to be done in the face of defeat on the battlefield. Asked about Munich, the U.S.'s Bedell Smith snapped: "A damned poor term. At Munich things were given away when there was no fighting. This is a war." The real test of the comparison would be whether Eden had learned a new urgency or been lured into a new complacency...