Word: municheer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consulate in Bratislava in 1948 and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment on an espionage charge. For six months Intelligence kept the story secret, in order not to help the Communists in their search. Fortnight ago the Czech Foreign Minister informed the U.S. of Hvasta's escape. In Munich the U.S. let Refugees Gavenda and Bures give their own estimate of Hvasta's chances. Said Bookkeeper Bures: "I think Hvasta is alive. Why should the Czechs say he was missing if he wasn't? If they had shot him they could say he was shot trying...
Other festival cities this year, notably Bayreuth and Munich, bid high for top-notch soloists. Salzburg, apparently confident that the Vienna Opera was the world's best, simply transplanted it for the festival season, and booked only two big outside stars: the Metropolitan Opera's Baritone George London (a commanding Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro) and Tenor Ramon Vinay (in Otello). Salzburg's musical stalwarts of other years (Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini) were absent. But the hall was fuller than ever and Salzburg had its most profitable season since...
German art has not yet recovered from Hitler's Third Reich. The fourth annual exhibition at Munich's "Corn Palace"† last week told the story. There were 974 exhibits by 387 artists (mostly living in Bavaria). But in all the confusion of forms and styles, the only common purpose seemed to be a preoccupation with picking up right where they left off before the Nazis destroyed their paintings...
...your June 9 Letters Column, Randolph S. Churchill says TIME was wrong in referring to Czechoslovakia as "Britain's ally" and denounces the "holier than thou" attitude adopted by some Americans towards the English in regard to Munich, and states that England had no more moral or legal obligation to defend Czechoslovakia than had the U.S. Mr. Churchill implies that the respective positions of Great Britain and the U.S. towards Czechoslovakia were...
...political involvement in Europe in 1938 . . . President Roosevelt never sent congratulations to Mussolini for arranging the Munich Conference, as alleged by Randolph Churchill . . . The President's telegram to Mussolini on Sept. 27 was a final appeal asking Mussolini to intervene with Hitler...