Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the same Daladier who, along with Neville Chamberlain, spoke for Allied appeasement at Hitler's Munich. Daladier is not a Communist or even a Socialist; he is a member of the moderate, right-of-center Radical Socialists. And on the Indo-China question he spoke for many a Frenchman who would violently reject the label of appeaser...
...accept the views of some "enlightened Americans" that, in our present difficulties, the more experienced British public opinion should prevail over our own. The opinions expressed by Mr. Driberg go far to convince me that the British mind has not materially improved its clarity since the days of Munich...
...would have ended the Civil War two years sooner, thus leading to an earlier assassination of Lincoln and Lee's election as President. Other Stroke of Fate teasers: Suppose Montcalm had defeated Wolfe at Quebec, Hamilton had killed Burr in their duel, Hitler had been killed in the Munich beer-hall Putsch? The program's solid grounding in historical fact (Nevins and Historian Stefan Lorant are regular advisers) and able dramatizations give it plausibility and high marks for entertainment...
...back in England from a visit to New York, notes that this trip marked his 29th transatlantic flight on business for TIME. Each staff member in the Bonn bureau averages about 30,000 miles a year, "taking planes the way most people take taxis," flying to Berlin, Belgrade, Vienna, Munich or Hamburg. Says Bonn's Frank White: "This is just our 'commuting mileage,' not including flights on military planes or the deliriously rare flight home." And the Paris bureau observes : "Air travel here is like taking...
This week more than 26 million West Germans-of 33 million eligible to
vote-streamed out into the warm sunshine to make their choice. Some,
with rucksacks on their backs, queued up before polling booths as early
as 4 a.m., voted, trudged off for holiday hikes. In Munich, a team of
boxers went to their polls in boxing trunks on the