Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policies of appeasement, and was replaced by Lord Halifax. Chamberlain picked Butler as Under Secretary. With the Foreign Secretary in the House of Lords, if was often Butler's job to defend policy in the Commons. While Churchill cried havoc from the back benches, Butler loyally defended Munich and Mussolini's Italy in his maddeningly tranquil voice, became famed for his equivocal replies to awkward questions. The exasperated and jittery Commons nicknamed him "Stonewall Butler," and Lloyd George called him "the artful dodger...
Once he had roared like an angry lion against delay and the deluded talkers of Munich. But last week an older Winston Churchill did nothing to quell Labor's feet-dragging rebels or to give urgency to his Foreign Secretary's plea for action. True, he sturdily supported German rearmament ("It astonished me that anyone can imagine the mighty, buoyant German race being relegated to a kind of no man's land in Europe and a sort of leper status at the mercy, and remaining at the mercy, of Soviet invasion"), but he weakened the case...
...plan also would give the Committee on General Education authorization to reduce general education requirements for students studying abroad, as the Committee deems appropriate. Under present arrangements study can be done in connection with the Sweet Briar groups in Geneva, Madrid, Paris, and Munich. These proposals will go before the faculty at their March meeting...
...pitcher to an outfielder and helped build the Yankee ball club; the other teamed with the immortal Knute Rockne to popularize the forward pass. 69. Within two weeks of each other, two of Britain's onetime Cabinet members died. One, a politician diplomat who resigned in protest against Munich; the other a distinguished statesman who died still stoutly defending the Munich pact...
...chief ingredient: hard work. "Other people," says an old German saw, "work to live. The German lives to work." It was Germany's cigar-smoking Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard who gave that national characteristic a free hand. A massive 57-year-old economics professor from the University of Munich, Erhard had for years preached the theme: "Turn the people and the money loose, and they will make the country strong." As a result, the free world is now blessed, on the one hand, by its strongest European bulwark against Communism-and confronted, on the other, with a new trade...